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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62075)	11/4/2001 6:23:36 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Wanna: Since the THG video came out, I've heard numerous convincing accounts from several people about how this situation can happen more often than you'd think. If AMD were as convinced as you are about the unlikelihood of heatsink removal during operation, I wonder why they bothered to make the response video that got this thread so excited a week ago. Enough BS (from both sides) around here to take care of the total Danish power needs! Being serious for a minute... I see two separate situations where a heat sink (and, guys, it NOT the fan that has to fall off, it's the whole friggin heat sink) could fall off. Both pretty unlikely, but maybe not completely irrelevant: - OEM shipments... case is jostled enough that the HSF falls off (probably due to not being mounted well enough from the onset). When user turns on computer - POOF! - "DIY guy" assembles computer and doesn't get the HSF on properly. When the case is turned upright, the HSF falls off... same result as last time ;-). In any event, this subject clearly doesn't deserve the massive coverage it's getting on this thread (but then that could be said of most things here). Sure, it would be better to have a safeguard built-in, but if it were really that interesting, more motherboard makers would make their boards with failure-protection (which is easily done, but virtually no boards support it). -fyo

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