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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (7514)9/4/2000 10:37:47 PM
From: ajbrennerRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Joe & Bill, While the problem of Duron's cracking from

improperly installed or designed heat sinks is well known there was never any mention of this problem wrt T-Bird.
Even if this a problem also shared with T-Bird Sharky seems to allude to outright failure of T-Birds and their mother boards.

"Athlon Thunderbird processors and KT133 motherboards dying".

Other then the heat sink problem, I ask again, Where's the reports of dead T-Birds and mother boards?

ajb

BTW If I buy a mother board/cpu combo with a heat sink and fan do they come already mounted?



To: Bill Jackson who wrote (7514)9/5/2000 3:48:18 AM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Bill, with a boxed Duron 650, I did find that I had to use much more pressure to get the second side of the heatsink clip onto the socket, as compared to a socket 7 chip. It also had to be bent outwards with a needle nose while it was pushed down with a screwdriver.

I was fearful of breaking the CPU socket.

Petz


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