775 heatsink connection is a plaque, usually not the first time but to R&R. Lousy design. IMO fp
At 08:44 AM 1/19/2010, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with: >I was upgrading the processor in my 2+ year old 775 mobo....since I wanted to >overclock, I decided to use the Ninja Plus cooler I bought 2 years ago but >never used since I decided I wasn't going to over clock. > >Well, the stock intel heatsink/fan with the pushpins is a real pain to deal >with on a 775 mobo...but damn! Try to install a Ninja Plus! The fins are >like supersharp rasor...trying to push the pushpins with the fins and >heatsinks for the nb is impossible....so after you get all bloody you decide >to turn the Ninja Plus upside down...and install the mobo from the top, onto >the bottom on the Ninja, while holding the mobo upside down. AFter a while you >get it on there...and the pins appear to have pushed though. YAY, you say. >You turn the pushpins so they lock...then you insert the mobo into the case, >and get everything screwed and plugged in.... > >then you use the system...moving it...opening the case...whatnot. Then you >start noticing that some of your cores seem to run hotter than the others even >under load....why would that be? Well, finally, you tough the humongous Ninja >and notice that that sucker is just sort of hanging there loose....waiting to >fall off...as it is mounted horizontally, at a right angle to your mobo. >Damn! Now, you got to yank that sucker and see if you can get it to >hold...after you do, and put in back in there...get everything screwed and >plugged in, you notice again that it's moving again! > >Now what do you do? There must be a better way? > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 4786 (20100119) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Once during prohibition, I was forced to live on nothing but food and water. - W.C. Fields
