Tuan Pham wrote:
> I have never had a heat sink fall off.  Is this a common problem?  It sounds like if the heatsink falls off the mobo, you got larger problems (i.e. crappy installer, cheap parts, overkill modder parts).
> 
> --
> Tuan Pham
> 

My mom just bought a Dell, and it came from the factory with some sort 
of failure in the heatsink clips that caused one to "pop" off after 
about sixty days of use.  And no, my mom doesn't move her computer 
around the house, take it to LAN parties, etc. :p

-- 
Chris H. Johnson Bidler
cbidler at innominatus.com



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