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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: mortis on July 25, 2001, 06:33:00 PM
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So how many of you out there have zapped, crushed, or destroyed computer parts by being impatient and not taking the time to install the part correctly? I just took a nice chunk out of a new duron cpu today while trying to install the heatsink/fan *after* everything else was already in place. Yeesh, I shoulda ordered the fan along with the other stuff. oh well, thats what i get. :D
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Check if your local shop is selling "Shims" between CPU and heatsink.
Its small copper/aluminium plate with hole in the center for cpu's core.
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Yep, durons and Tbirds can be broken if you get in too big a hurry and don't do it right. (As Staga said, shims prevent this, and are about $10. Great buy IMO.)
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The worst thing I witnessed was -ivan- breaking the CH Force-FX stick down after spinning because of pot spikes...
I felt like hiding under the table :)
CH makes srong sticks. It took him 10 minutes to break the handle from the base. QS or Genius sticks usualy last until first 1-2 hits.
Keyboard is a nice puzzle to break for your workmates, who ask you - "Pavel, isn't it your 'ALT' button?" :)
Cracking 3.5" floppies is a long and good habbit - it's impossible to explain other people that if they are going to have the only copy of their great scientific results on a floppy that refused to format w/o bad sectors - they'll lose it anyway. Damn! They still collect cracked floppies that I threw into the coridor! And they glue it together with adhesive tape, and still insert them into the floppy drives!
You'll not believe me - but here in Moscow we have people repairing $2 mice!!! And the mice they repaired work better then new... Imagine an engineer who makes at least $15 daily, spending his whole day repairing a $2 mouse!
IMHO it's one of the reasons why Russia is still in such a deep [...] now.
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Funny you should mention the shims, I ordered one (along with a new chip, blah!) right after i started this thread. This time I'll put the thing on correctly.
I used to have a huge microplis scsi drive once, after a failed attempt at flashing it me and a friend took it out and shot it with a .308 rifle. Damn thing stopped a round butt cold. I was impressed. :)
I think that was the reason I stopped playing Counter-Strike. Too many broken mice and too much time putting the keys on the keyboard back in the right order.
:D
[ 07-26-2001: Message edited by: mortis ]