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Subject: omg, did you ever hear of this?
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Original Message 1/1 20-Jul-07 @ 01:47 PM - omg, did you ever hear of this?
run into the room and look inside the beeping pc case and the cooler has fallen off!!
One of the plastic hooks which the cooler metal clip attaches to on the mobo baseplate just snapped off by itself and the cooler crashed to the bottom of the case, and this was a light 'stock' amd cooler - Not a cheap mobo, amd64, ASUS AM2 board
w-hat!
anyways, decided to replace the cpu with something faster cos it needed it anyways, so went uptown to get one and couldnt get a new plastic or whatever material replacement motherboard base-plate, and no-one had any other coolers which came with an alterative replacement baseplate. All the available coolers needed the hook clip on the stock plastic baseplate, even the whole zalman range
damn!... but one tech in a shop i use showed me a good trick...
he passed medium size plastic cable ties thru the gaps in the sides of the mobo plastic baseplate; 4 ties in total - 2 each side - then he passed those ties thru the slots in the metal clip section on the new cooler, then pulled the cooler down tight onto the cpu using the cable ties anchored to the baseplate
worked a treat!.. it was so obvious i dunno why i didnt think of it, but there you go anyways, one for the emergency box
anyways thinking about it, it might be an idea to add the ties anyways at build time as an added security measure, especialy if using a heavy 3rd party heatsink
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