― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
they're pretty hardy, tbh. i am a complete lamefist with a heatsink and have applied what i would consider to be FAR too much pressure to a number of processors and i've never broken one yet!
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, all mobos now have ZIF sockets, which have the little lever thingee:
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ProcessorSocket370.jpg
You raise the lever, gently place the CPU, and then lower it back. Easy.
Tho I do remember bending the pins trying to upgrade my 1993 vintage PC to a 486-66 some years back.
― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― the ghost of olde ilx, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
and 2Gb SOUNDS good. duh.
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
i bought myself a starter pc to mess around with, upgrade, play a few older games on
first thing i did - took fans out and a good clean all around
second thing i did- cleaned off old thermal paste and reapplied
now it doesnt switch on
i am reminding myself that this is exactly what i bought it for and that it was a piece of junk anyway
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:25 (four months ago) link
it now switches on intermittently and sometimes even has a video output
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 16 February 2024 23:21 (four months ago) link