On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:20:48 +0100 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 11:44 +0100, mbm wrote:
But I then had a hard time removing the E6550 because one of the cooler locating pins refused to release properly.
Glad I am not the only person that doesn't get along with that Intel LGA Heatsink arrangement, it just seems a very dubious way of attachment to me. It puts a lot of stress on the PCB.
Agreed. I think the arrangement is pretty dumb too. In the last couple of builds I have tried to install the CPU and heat sink to the board outside the case (with the board resting on a piece of foam on a hard surface). But this makes installing the board into the case tricky because the heat sink and fan then get in the way.
And I just /hate/ removing the damned things. Seeing a motherboard flex gives me nightmares.
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