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DarkEdge · 01-24-2002, 09:17 PM

I never used a shim. Never needed to until... I was gaming away on DoD and all of a sudden there was a couple screen glitches, and then black. Everything was still on too. After checking all my hardware, testing diffrent things, I took off my waterblock and guess what I found? The top portion of my duron was chipped.

It wasn't from mounting, it had been on the duron 3+ months. Hadn't gone to any lans either.

So being rather pissed off, I went to Axion Tech (They sell DANGER DEN items now) bought a 1.4 tbird and a non-conductive shim.

Didn't want to, but I wasn't going to let something this FUBAR happen again.

01-24-2002, 09:17 PM	#18
DarkEdge Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sugar Land, Tx Posts: 176	I never used a shim. Never needed to until... I was gaming away on DoD and all of a sudden there was a couple screen glitches, and then black. Everything was still on too. After checking all my hardware, testing diffrent things, I took off my waterblock and guess what I found? The top portion of my duron was chipped. It wasn't from mounting, it had been on the duron 3+ months. Hadn't gone to any lans either. So being rather pissed off, I went to Axion Tech (They sell DANGER DEN items now) bought a 1.4 tbird and a non-conductive shim. Didn't want to, but I wasn't going to let something this FUBAR happen again.