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Originally Posted by T-Will
One time I put my heatsink on backwards...bye bye processor. 
It was time for an upgrade anyways. 
It was time for an upgrade anyways. B) Don't you work in IT?
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Haha, on one end of the heatsink is a groove, and somehow I had it rotated wrong so the groove wasn't lined so it wasn't making complete contact with the processor. The heatsink still locked into place though, so I didn't realize anything was wrong until Windows starting shutting down on its own. 
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Originally Posted by T-Will
Haha, on one end of the heatsink is a groove, and somehow I had it rotated wrong so the groove wasn't lined so it wasn't making complete contact with the processor. The heatsink still locked into place though, so I didn't realize anything was wrong until Windows starting shutting down on its own.
1) this is why people like yourself should use Intel chips
2) how the hell did you even latch down the heatsink???
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The metal latch is pretty flexible and as you can see it doesn't have to stretch much farther than if I had it on the correct way. Sry, I didn't mean to be as gay as Jeremy...
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Originally Posted by T-Will
The metal latch is pretty flexible and as you can see it doesn't have to stretch much farther than if I had it on the correct way. Sry, I didn't mean to be as gay as Jeremy...
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Originally Posted by GT35 STI
192 MB Ram
30GB Festplatte
GeForce FX 5200
1990 called... they want their comp back
30GB Festplatte
GeForce FX 5200
1990 called... they want their comp back
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More like what, 2003 called...
If 1990 called he would probably be running a 386 w/4 MB of RAM and a 100 MB HD I'm guessing.
If 1990 called he would probably be running a 386 w/4 MB of RAM and a 100 MB HD I'm guessing.
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Originally Posted by RussB
how the hell would you know what a computer was like back in 1990? you were probably like 5 years old.
1990 I was rolling in a 386. hehe 486 at the time was too ballin for me.
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I remember when my parents upgraded our 486 with an additional 8 MB of RAM for around $300, giving that puter a grand total of 12 MB of RAM!!! I was so happy cause I could play Descent and Mechwarrior 2 then...those were the days...
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Originally Posted by T-Will
More like what, 2003 called...
If 1990 called he would probably be running a 386 w/4 MB of RAM and a 100 MB HD I'm guessing.
If 1990 called he would probably be running a 386 w/4 MB of RAM and a 100 MB HD I'm guessing.
good luck with that 100mb HD unless you were running some monster government database.. and the drives would be SCSI
a 20MB HD in 1990 was THE ****ING BOMB