"extra-marital affairs, drug abuse, visits to prostitutes, medical conditions, criminal convictions and debt histories "
- sounds like a viral marketing campaign for the RAF if you ask me - who knew that they had so much fun!
I suppose the word 'raffish' had to come from somewhere.
That's a great description of how to attach it to a P4 socket. I have (had?) an Athlon Socket A and that method (the H bracket) cannot be used as the M/B does not have holes.
I fully agree that the h/s wasn't on tight enough when the CPU fried. However, that's 'cause the little bitty clips let it slip after a while, not because it was loose originally.
At the risk of getting a little off-topic, I recently bought one of the AquariusII kits to cool a 700MHz Duron home PC.
I fitted the cooler per manufacturers specs, and switched on: Great, quiet and cool running. A week later the PC died - the heatsink had slipped off the mounting and the Duron died a terrible thermal death:( .
I replaced with a new MB, RAM and AMD Athlon 2200+ CPU (it was Christmas, after all). Connected up, and it ran for a couple of restarts (3-4 days) before failing. The heatsink had slipped and the (new) CPU was toast:(:(:( .
I looked at the mounting kit much more carefully after that, and basically the heatsink mounting for the socket A sucks. The design does not allow for a solid mouning of the heatsink on the Socket A. (The mounting mechanism on the Socket 462 is great). The heatsinkis held on by a small clip which is prone to shake loose if there is any vibration or movement.
I've found it is possible to mount the heatsink solidly on the Socket A, but it's not possible using the manufacturesrs method. I'm still trying to decide if I should revive the PC with a new CPU and try again, or revert to the Zalman air cooling that was in place previously.
Internal auditors for a company travel to a site and spend 3 - 6 weeks at a site looking through the way the company executes. Probably deadly boring work, but
- very little overtime
- very little interference from your clients!
- weekends and evenings free
In 2 years you could visit 12 - 18 countries for long enough to get to know the place a little - not like the rest of us who are on fast in and fast out schedule.
I had one of these as my AP for 2 1/2 years, until recently when it failed (?bad capacitor). In all that time it never gave a problem. Pity that the 1st failure was terminal!
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"extra-marital affairs, drug abuse, visits to prostitutes, medical conditions, criminal convictions and debt histories " - sounds like a viral marketing campaign for the RAF if you ask me - who knew that they had so much fun! I suppose the word 'raffish' had to come from somewhere.
That's a great description of how to attach it to a P4 socket. I have (had?) an Athlon Socket A and that method (the H bracket) cannot be used as the M/B does not have holes. I fully agree that the h/s wasn't on tight enough when the CPU fried. However, that's 'cause the little bitty clips let it slip after a while, not because it was loose originally.
At the risk of getting a little off-topic, I recently bought one of the AquariusII kits to cool a 700MHz Duron home PC. I fitted the cooler per manufacturers specs, and switched on: Great, quiet and cool running. A week later the PC died - the heatsink had slipped off the mounting and the Duron died a terrible thermal death :( .
I replaced with a new MB, RAM and AMD Athlon 2200+ CPU (it was Christmas, after all). Connected up, and it ran for a couple of restarts (3-4 days) before failing. The heatsink had slipped and the (new) CPU was toast :( :( :( .
I looked at the mounting kit much more carefully after that, and basically the heatsink mounting for the socket A sucks. The design does not allow for a solid mouning of the heatsink on the Socket A. (The mounting mechanism on the Socket 462 is great). The heatsinkis held on by a small clip which is prone to shake loose if there is any vibration or movement.
I've found it is possible to mount the heatsink solidly on the Socket A, but it's not possible using the manufacturesrs method. I'm still trying to decide if I should revive the PC with a new CPU and try again, or revert to the Zalman air cooling that was in place previously.
Internal auditors for a company travel to a site and spend 3 - 6 weeks at a site looking through the way the company executes. Probably deadly boring work, but - very little overtime - very little interference from your clients! - weekends and evenings free In 2 years you could visit 12 - 18 countries for long enough to get to know the place a little - not like the rest of us who are on fast in and fast out schedule.
I had one of these as my AP for 2 1/2 years, until recently when it failed (?bad capacitor). In all that time it never gave a problem. Pity that the 1st failure was terminal!