Check this filthy heatsink out!

[Conky]

Old cpu still glued to filthy heatsink
and
Sideview of heatsink. I always wondered what happened to kitty!

BTW, upgraded from P4-1.8A to P4-3.06. Nice upgrade. Makes my new 9800Pro sing!

 

[ai42]

Jeeze you live under a tree?!

 

[blodhi74]

filters on the intake fans perhaps

 

[Conky]

Originally posted by: ai42
Jeeze you live under a tree?!

LOL, no.

I haven't messed with it for over a year and I leave the side of the case off 99% of the time. Plus the fan is 80CFM so it draws a lot of air from this dusty old house.

 

[screw3d]

Ewwwwww :disgust:

 

[Abhi]

I hope you didnt OC!

 

[juror1]

OMG

I think I see dust mite infestation.............LOL

I bet that core was really warming up that room.

 

[nitromullet]

The P4 cpu coming off with the heatsink has happened to me before as well, kinda sucks if you ask me. Makes we kinda nervous everytime I remove the HSF. Never happened to me with larger Socket7 or Athlons. Is this an issue with the smaller A64's as well? Either way, I hope that the newer sockets address this somehow.

oh yeah, air-duster is your friend

 

[Sid59]

i should take mine for a cleaning. pulling heatsinks with the mobo still attached is boring. i shoulda got a case with a mobo tray.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
The P4 cpu coming off with the heatsink has happened to me before as well, kinda sucks if you ask me. Makes we kinda nervous everytime I remove the HSF. Never happened to me with larger Socket7 or Athlons. Is this an issue with the smaller A64's as well? Either way, I hope that the newer sockets address this somehow.

oh yeah, air-duster is your friend

The problem comes from the heatspreader giving so much surface area for the paste to create a vacuum.

 

[nitromullet]

That makes a lot of sense. So, the careful twist and wiggle approach I have adpoted serves to break the vacuum. It seems like this could easily be solved by the heatspreader having a small groove or channel in it, but I guess this isn't a problem if you go with the stock thermal pad.

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
That makes a lot of sense. So, the careful twist and wiggle approach I have adpoted serves to break the vacuum. It seems like this could easily be solved by the heatspreader having a small groove or channel in it, but I guess this isn't a problem if you go with the stock thermal pad.

It does, in fact. I've seen P4 pins destroyed from being ripped out of the socket when removing the stock cooler with the stock pad. It's just a bad design. Increased surface area with sticky pad = CPU ripped out of socket = broken pins.

 

[gsellis]

Willing to beat Fuzzy Logic computations ran really fast on it... , duck, run

 

[EXman]

is that an Alpha? My Alpha was such a PITA to clean OMG! I feel 4 ya!

 

[JBT]

holy crap NASTY dude

 

[Nohr]

Speaking of filthy computers, this is someone's Dell I worked on a couple months ago. The last two are the worst..

Rear
Rear Fan Closeup
Inside
When heatsink and chia pets mix
Ducted CPU Fan with a new and improved red mud coloring
Bottom Inside
Carpetted Interior!
Fan looks like it's been in a mud puddle
Underneath the front bezel, home of the dirt clods
Closeup of floppy drive :Q

 

[RickH]

That photo demonstrates why I have always thought that Intel is the better product for the "average" computer user. The heat sink can be full of junk or the fan can stop running and the processor is fine. An AMD might burn the house down. Most people never open their computer in the five or more years they use the machine. The current generation of Intel and AMD CPUs are both potential disasters for the cat lover R

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Nohr
Speaking of filthy computers, this is someone's Dell I worked on a couple months ago. The last two are the worst..

Rear
Rear Fan Closeup
Inside
When heatsink and chia pets mix
Ducted CPU Fan with a new and improved red mud coloring
Bottom Inside
Carpetted Interior!
Fan looks like it's been in a mud puddle
Underneath the front bezel, home of the dirt clods
Closeup of floppy drive :Q

Yikes. I wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft pole.

 

[Gagabiji]

Originally posted by: Nohr
Speaking of filthy computers, this is someone's Dell I worked on a couple months ago. The last two are the worst..

Rear
Rear Fan Closeup
Inside
When heatsink and chia pets mix
Ducted CPU Fan with a new and improved red mud coloring
Bottom Inside
Carpetted Interior!
Fan looks like it's been in a mud puddle
Underneath the front bezel, home of the dirt clods
Closeup of floppy drive :Q

OMG, that makes me sick.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: RickH
That photo demonstrates why I have always thought that Intel is the better product for the "average" computer user. The heat sink can be full of junk or the fan can stop running and the processor is fine. An AMD might burn the house down. Most people never open their computer in the five or more years they use the machine. The current generation of Intel and AMD CPUs are both potential disasters for the cat lover R

That's probably why Dell uses Intel.

-Por

 

[Homerboy]

WTF is all that red dust?
They live on Mars or WTF?!

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: Homerboy
WTF is all that red dust?
They live on Mars or WTF?!

Apparently the owner lived out on an unpaved road. Seems there's a fair bit of red dirt out there and it gets kicked up in to a fine dust that gets in to everything. There was red dust and mud all over her truck's tires and such, and it was on her shoes too. I asked her if she left her windows open all day or something but she said no.

Took a lot of work to get that computer clean again.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: Homerboy
WTF is all that red dust?
They live on Mars or WTF?!

Apparently the owner lived out on an unpaved road. Seems there's a fair bit of red dirt out there and it gets kicked up in to a fine dust that gets in to everything. There was red dust and mud all over her truck's tires and such, and it was on her shoes too. I asked her if she left her windows open all day or something but she said no.

Took a lot of work to get that computer clean again.

wow
I would have just hosed it down
wonder what her lungs look like

 

[Maximilian]

"Sideview of heatsink. I always wondered what happened to kitty! "

Rofl, thats a ton o dust! poor kat

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: juror1
OMG

I think I see dust mite infestation.............LOL

I bet that core was really warming up that room.

Infestation? I think they set up a colony and a breeding facility there. Generations later, it came to be known as Heaven. The RAM was the living area, the videocard was Hell. Don't ask how I know, I just know.