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[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

LGA775 push pins piss me off, especially when you realize you need to flash four BIOS and need try and replace the tiny 45nm heatsink with a massive one for your P4 lying around, in which the pins are so atrophied and maligned that it makes you cringe.

Open discussion about random superflous aspects of computing / tech that could be made so much better?

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[gholam.livejournal.com]

Meh, I prefer LGA775 pushpins to the old S478 clamps. AMD S754/939/940 mounting can be done good, and can be done horribly horribly bad depending on the manufacturer. Spring-loaded screws going through motherboard directly to the chassis are the best, but you don't see them outside of servers.

[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

yea, I like the screw-in approack.
I've actually never worked with an S748 heatsink, those were when I was an AMD loyalist and before I was employed in the field

[sdaemon.livejournal.com]

everything should connect like lego bricks.

Period.

:D

[pikaporeon.livejournal.com]

agreed.

I mean, putting in expansion cards is basically like lego anyway, right?

[taleya.livejournal.com]

folded edges on PC cases. They need to go

BOXXEN DO NOT WORK RIGHT WITHOUT BLOOD SACRIFICE!!!

That said, I do wish they'd go back to the molex-pinned standard of BIOS batteries. They always stick the coin fuckers right up against a heatsink or ram bed and you scrape the living shit out of your knuckles trying to get the fuckers out (same with the mobo power pins)