Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:25:29 01/04/02
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>Nope. You run almost zero risk of damaging the harddisk by opening the
>computer's case and reading the info printed on the disk. This is not true of
>the CPU, once it has been bonded to the heatsink. When you try to remove the
>heat sink from the CPU, it is very easy to damage the chip. (They require
>thermal paste to bond to the CPU.) If you go over to the overclocking newsgroups
>you'll see the tales of woe.
>things like :
> "I carefully removed the heatsink, but now after installing a better one,
> nothing works."
That's new to me. I have to change fan/heatsinks on a regular basis (every 4
months or so) since the air here inevitably causes gunk to accumulate in it (the
price I pay for living in front of the ocean) pretty much rendering the fan
useless. I also use thermal paste BTW. However, I never had any problems
removing the fan/heatsink, and each CPU I use typically runs through 3 of them
in their lifetime. It glues a little of course, so you need to slide it off to
loosen the grip, but otherwise no problems to speak of.
Albert
>
>When you can wreck a chip that costs that much, that easily, it's not too
>"silly".
>
>Dave
>
>"Whaddya mean I shouldn't use scanf for input?"
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