Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2001 4:14 pm
I killed a 1gig tbird by not being careful I guess. ok so it was my first one. next I get Another 1gig Tbird and am Extreamly careful. I get a copper shim and am doing it all by the books. It breaks and I wasnt even touching it. I had installed windows and I had to restart hit the reset button and bam would not boot. after a few hours of Dickign around I took the heatsink off and a corner was chipped. 
ok Im pissed now but Happy cause I bought it Retail so I have a 3 year waranty. WRONG. stupid ass amd trackes there Retail chips by the Sereal ## on the FAN! the fan was a POS so I gave it away. ok so they still replace it but it is a One tiem deal. Pissed again. Presently waitign for that oen to bet back.
Now on to this story. I bought another 1gig tbird for a steal of a deal off a dude on hardocp for $100. No one else would deal with him cause they all thought he was just trying 2 scam people but I asked if he would ship first and he did. very kool of him. he informes me the chip ant a great OC'er and ir a little beat up. I didnt care as long as it worked and at that price it was a steel. It comes in and man this thing is the rattyest looking chip I have ever seen. he took the rubber foam feet off of it cause he had a old heatsink that didnt clip tight enough. so here I have this chip that has many chips off the core and has compound al lover the place. so I plop it in and put a copper shim on it and then install my new tansol heatsink that isnt suposed to smoosh the core. wow it worked and all the way up to 1133 at defult voltage thats 8.5*133. I was pleased but still woried abotu it breaking and the shim moving at all and shortign it ut which would Totally suck.
so I take it back out and clean it up the best I can being vary careful as it doesnt look liek it could take another blow. I decide to Super glue the copper shim to the cpu cause I figgure that is the best way to keep it from movint. Hunt around and finally find my Super Glue Jel. it doesnt spread out liek standuard super glue and glue it down. after Un stickign my fingers from my new chip I look at it and try and figgure out why amd doesnt do this in the First place. Ohwell. I then clean off the Pink goop the heatsink comes with and slime on some artic silver and pop it back i nthe box.
Flying High at 1200 baby! For $100 and 6 buks for the shim and $1 of super glue this is fricken awsome! Just figgured I wold share this with you all.
Greg
ok Im pissed now but Happy cause I bought it Retail so I have a 3 year waranty. WRONG. stupid ass amd trackes there Retail chips by the Sereal ## on the FAN! the fan was a POS so I gave it away. ok so they still replace it but it is a One tiem deal. Pissed again. Presently waitign for that oen to bet back.Now on to this story. I bought another 1gig tbird for a steal of a deal off a dude on hardocp for $100. No one else would deal with him cause they all thought he was just trying 2 scam people but I asked if he would ship first and he did. very kool of him. he informes me the chip ant a great OC'er and ir a little beat up. I didnt care as long as it worked and at that price it was a steel. It comes in and man this thing is the rattyest looking chip I have ever seen. he took the rubber foam feet off of it cause he had a old heatsink that didnt clip tight enough. so here I have this chip that has many chips off the core and has compound al lover the place. so I plop it in and put a copper shim on it and then install my new tansol heatsink that isnt suposed to smoosh the core. wow it worked and all the way up to 1133 at defult voltage thats 8.5*133. I was pleased but still woried abotu it breaking and the shim moving at all and shortign it ut which would Totally suck.
so I take it back out and clean it up the best I can being vary careful as it doesnt look liek it could take another blow. I decide to Super glue the copper shim to the cpu cause I figgure that is the best way to keep it from movint. Hunt around and finally find my Super Glue Jel. it doesnt spread out liek standuard super glue and glue it down. after Un stickign my fingers from my new chip I look at it and try and figgure out why amd doesnt do this in the First place. Ohwell. I then clean off the Pink goop the heatsink comes with and slime on some artic silver and pop it back i nthe box.
Flying High at 1200 baby! For $100 and 6 buks for the shim and $1 of super glue this is fricken awsome! Just figgured I wold share this with you all.
Greg
1200 for 100 bux. Pretty hard to beat that. BTW, who was the "shruud duud" who put you onto that VERY COOL Taisol hs.