Burnt toast (geekery)
by at 10:31 PM
This is what a 1.1GHz Athlon looks like if its heatsink fails.
Note the heatsink compound's burnt-sienna color, and the subtle charring of the ceramic on the right.
I think I'll be putting the Duron 800 into the squirble/trikuare hybrid, thanks.
11:55 PM I plugged the Duron 800 into the motherboard and it still wouldn't even POST. Damnit, I guess the motherboard's toast too (though I didn't see any scorch marks on it, though I imagine that if I look on the underside I'll see plenty of gobs of melted solder). In any case, it turns out that the fan on the heatsink is just fine — it's the heatsink itself which failed, as it got so clogged with dust that the air stopped circulating!
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Is most of this entry *supposed* to be a link to the picture? Including the "Update" bit?
The heatsink didn't fail, it failed to be cleaned.
ali: Of course not.
terpia: The design of the heatsink caused it to accumulate dust in a way which I've NEVER seen a heatsink accumulate dust before. Its failure to be cleaned caused it to fail in its operation. I (and probably 99.999% of all computer users) feel that its design is flawed if it needs to be regularly taken apart and carefully hand-cleaned in order to avoid a catastrophic failure!