Brain surgery 101

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Zao
I've done a somewhat related stupid thing. I've touched the heatsink of an overclocked early Thunderbird whose fan had stopped. Those things are quite hot y'know

YES they are.

[gangster]

Decided to upgrade the heatsink/fan since I'm also adding a Verax to the Parhelia. Never liked the stock heatsink and fan anyway, looks cheap, which it is. Being as I oc the P4 somewhat, it makes sense to improve cooling here anyway.

Would also like to significantly reduce the noise of the box so will try different/fewer case fans too. I think I have gone overboard, I have 8 fans including CPU and PS.

[Liquid Snake]

I've accidently done this before too, when I had my old P3-750. I forgot to reconnect the fan cable one time after doing some general case cleaning. It was like this for two days before I noticed! After that, it crashed a few minutes into a game, and when I rebooted, the CPU temp was 78C. Forunately no harm was done but it was quite scary.

[TnT]

Back with my Celeron 466 the fan kept intermittently failing, causing the computer to beep loudly. Everytime I opened up the case to take a look the fan would be running. Only after a few days did the fan finally stop completely. No harm done, but I upgraded a few months later anyways.

[DentyCracker]

Did that last year in April just before leaving for the UK on a P4 Server that I was installing Win2K AS on. Didn't realise until after Win2K was installed. Luckily the processor was unharmed. Server still works as far as I know.