At Canada Computers in Toronto, circa 2009.
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Good grief, that’s a fun one to see! How did the conversation go with the customer if you remember?
Now I wonder what catastrophic damage my Noctua D15 would do. An unstoppable force cooler would hit my big ass GPU immovable object. That collision would trigger a big bang ray traced singularity localised entirely within my PC case.
I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets used to be hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that’s fallen. 😄 It’s not a poorly installed cooler. This is prior to the user-installed push-pin design that came with the Core processors on the LGA sockets.
That’s not freezing! That’s burning up!
Heatsink glue failed. common problem.
Before I learned about thermal adhesive I used to use thermal paste. Fool me once!
Never lost a cpu cooler. But I had a 6800GT shit itself because the fan died and got all melty. Was able to get a good enough replacement at a comp USA and it still worked.
Reminds of this one from around the same period:
those are just cap vents to let the angry ghosts out
This computer was old and shit even for 2009 standards. Floppy drive, IDE HDD and CD-ROM, a PCI modem, CPU looks to be a P4 socket 478. I’d say this PC was new somewhere around 2002, so well worn by the time 2009 rolled around.
I like how not only has the heatsink fallen off (which happened often with those early P4 plastic push pins). The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected. Not that a fan and such a tiny crappy heatsink would do much anyways.
The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected.
That’s how you turn on the quiet mode of the GPU.
