y'know that's a pretty good question, how DO you put it in backward LOL.

This is an instant fave.

thats why instructions are for :P

Those facial expressions are mint!

Answer....

"I don't know, it just fit that way..."

XD Probably.. The story goes, my friend was setting up his new computer, and his housemate ever so graciously offered to 'help'. Needless to say, one smoking motherboard later, I don't think said friend will let his roomie come within 10 feet of anything computer-related. :P

That's also what automatically scaling down the processor in response to extreme temperatures is good for. XP

Great pic. ^^

After recently having the fan on my power supply (which controlled ALL of my other fans) die, I can sympathize completely and agree that is not a reassuring smell.

I saw the text in the thumbnail and litteraly bust out in laughter. I wanna know how you put it on backwards too.

This is why I built mine with a Liquid Cooler

Let me guess, AMD system? With the Palomino through Barton cores, It's easy to fit the heatsink on backwards, and boy, do they EVER go up in smoke if the cooler isn't set. Copper shims seem to cause more problems than they solve, too.

I once had a guy bring a Prescott-based computer to me, complaining about restarts. He told me he tried to fix the heatsink himself with this ultra-expensive silver thermal paste, to no avaid. When I tool the CPU cooler off, there was so much thermal paste, it was dripping into the LGA pins, not to mention it still had pieces of the original thermal pad on it. OH MY GOD. About 20 alchohol-soaked cotton swabs later, it was running fine, but I gave the guy a stiff warning not to install a heatsink himself. Ever.

Moral: don't build computers. Pay me lots of money to do it for you. :)

I ended up winning this. This is exactly the relationship two of my friends have with each other, right down to the "oh well" expression. I gave it to the friend who relates to the crying wolf. He hung it up in his office.

Aw thanks!! :) Glad to hear he's enjoying it.

I love how you drew the wolf/husky/dog char and i love yr over dramatic emotions you put into this....
*wishes to anyone that listenes to be able to draw like this!*

I feel with him ^^.
But with every failure you learn something new.
In this case, don't let someone like that in the range of your computer equipment :D.

lol done that once before >< i know the pain.

the marshmallows are priceless.... Tis scary how easy it is to do that if you aren't paying attention to the notch in the heatsink....

Alas that situation does sound kinda familiar...although I would be the one messing everything up.

im take electronics in college, this is funny... i lmao

wow, that reminds me of when my dad tried installing a CD burner in his old computer and I had to tell him wich part was the front of it. Poor guy, he's so electronically inept.

OMG X3

That is SO SAD, Yet I can't stop laughing...