Is it just me or is the stock heatsink and fan set up that intel provides with their processors in a retail package a load of crap?
I managed to break the plastic harness within a few minutes of opening the box just simpy installing the damn thing. Not only that but then the grey bracket popped off the other side and after all that was fixed, the damn thing wouldnt settle on to the cpu! AAAArrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I finally managed to get it up and running but it took me 2 days to do something that should have only taken a few hours at most.
Never again to do I anything with Intel. Back to AMD for good for me.
I agree with you, also. I'm currently taking a pc hardware maintenance class (as part of my degree program). Nearly every heatsink/fan has something wrong with it (fan blade broken, bracket popped off).
Thank my lucky stars all the parts were working with are from older (but not that old) computers anyway, and that I'm taking the basic class. I think in this semester we're just learning how to put a computer together; I may be wrong.
When the cpu fan started making too much noise, i made my own. I used the standard screw on heat sink as a base to screw on an adapter, which i made, to which i screwed one of those fans from an old power supply. It's quieter, and it sucks air. I mean it really sucks air, compared to the old one. I think i saw something similar being sold somewhere.
2 years ago, I end-up with a brand new CPU all the pins lied down like a wheat-field with a chopper landed on:-( Now off-course I found out it is the 4 plastic notches underneath are far more important to hold the CPU stick to the board than the levels(hooks)
FMZ - So far so good mang.... I got the network up and running but I am having some slight issues with opening the programs from the remote computer. Gonna get that fixed on Sunday cuz tommorow I will be at ARROWHEAD stadium to watch my beloved Kansas City Chiefs! w00t!
