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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 231.80+1.7%Jan 16 3:59 PM EST
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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62075)11/4/2001 6:01:55 PM
From: combjellyRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
" I've heard numerous convincing accounts from several people about how this situation can happen more often than you'd think."

And what might those situations be? Assuming the heatsink is properly installed, the only one I can come up with is the plastic on the socket giving way. While I have managed to break one off while trying to install a heatsink, it is hard to imagine how the plastic could be flawed or damaged enough to break, but not break immediately after the heatsink is installed. There is a lot of force holding those things on.
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