gbaji wrote:
To be fair, I work on a lot of HP workstations at work. I can pull almost everything and replace them without even using a tool. Except the cpus and the boards. These require tools and take a **** of a lot more time. Pretty equivalent amounts of time. The difference being that if I pull the entire board with cpus and memory and swap it out for an entire board/cpu/memory trio from a known working system, it's done and takes about the same amount of time it would take to replace one cpu. And that may or may not be the problem. Um... But that's not what I'm basing my argument on. I just point it out as a reference point. While these are not typically used for home computing, they're also a far cry from appliances. Again, I mention this only to respond to your "I've never seen any design" comment.
Your argument is even more absurd and distant from reality when it comes to HP workstations. And shows a marked lack of troubleshooting.
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Every fan designer seems to have his own idea of the "best way" to attach a fan to a heatsink. Then comes the fun of releasing the cpu lever and replacing the cpu. This is admittedly not the pain that it once was (bent pins no longer the issue it once was). Assuming you have a well designed socket, this isn't too terrible, but if the board is "old", that may also not be the case. Then you have to re-attach the new heatsink and fan assembly. Which again, can be a pain in the ****.
I just suspect our experiences are different.
I just suspect our experiences are different.
To be fair, I'm sure our experiences are vastly different. As I pointed out before I'm likely an extremely stubborn *********. I've stepped on a CPU laying on the floor, then bent every individual flattened pin back to straight. And proceeded to use that CPU for another...two or three years. That's a special kind of insanity. And stupidity.
