'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by watersb on Friday March 30, 2018 @06:51AM (#16715102)

For a couple of years, 2007-2009, I kept encountering budget-build AMD boxes with cooked thermal compund. The first time a client brought in a comouter with the heatsink rolling around loose on the bottom of the case, I thought it was rough treatment, customer error. But then two more, Dell instead of eMachines or Compaq... weird.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by cptskippy on Friday March 30, 2018 @09:41AM (#16715935)

That's not surprising. Towards the end of the Mhz Wars the heatsinks had become pretty ungainly but they were still using the flimsy spring clip instead of the more modern 4 post or gantry type systems used today (sorry I'm sure they have proper names but damned if I know what they are).

I had a solid copper heatsink that was easily 5lbs for my Athlon XP system. I held onto it for the longest time after I got rid of the system because I knew the metal was easily worth $20.

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