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To: Paul Engel who wrote (146647)	11/3/2001 9:39:32 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: The Heat Sink has a CHANNEL in which the CLIP is slotted through. And that clip can be inserted from either side of the channel. I've done it. With my own two hands. That's the way they work. And regardless, the fact that the socket has two tabs, not in the center, on one side; and one tab, in the center, on the other side, makes it, quite literally, impossible to attach the heatsink 180 degrees off. Since AMD's die is pretty much thermally homogenous and is in the center of the chip package (P4 and its famous "hotspots" may be a different story) it doesn't matter which side of the heatsink channel the clip is inserted from. Maybe P4 clock throttles badly when the heatsink is 180 degrees off - that could explain the uneven performance exhibited by P4 systems... When you make up these stories, and attribute them to your imaginary friends, try to at least make up something vaguely plausible.