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Story reminds me of the time that I literally squished a CPU with a fan. Being fairly inexperienced with those things, I had somehow managed to turn the fan 180

Story reminds me of the time that I literally squished a CPU with a fan. Being fairly inexperienced with those things, I had somehow managed to turn the fan 180 degrees before forcefully attaching it to the CPU. I even remember the hassle involved in making the little power wires extend all the way to the far side of the fan but at no time did my brain enter the loop. Took the CPU back to the store the next day to complain that it didn't work and it took them about epsilon seconds to figure out what had happened. I bought a new CPU and hastily left the building. They must have been laughing at that for days.

soylentcola 10y ago
This is partly why I had historically gotten everything else in place before messing with the heatsink/fan. Those older ones could be really touchy and I was petrified of crunching the exposed die of one of those older processors by having to remove or otherwise futz around with the mount after getting it attached. One time I really did think I heard a crunching/grit type sound when mounting a heatsink and my stomach dropped out until I got the system powered on and verified that nothing was broken. Seriously, these things were terrifying to mount a heatsink on back in the day with the way that thing sticks out, rubber pads be damned: https://i.imgur.com/6w1oVMS.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6w1oVMS.jpg