Well, travelling home from uni by car, transported pc in large padded suitcase, set up rig here a few days later. powered up and noticed fan noise was loud and was obviously at full rpm. everything was booting fine, post, windows but i immediately knew what was wrong and the 3 proceeding warning beeps confirmed my fear. i switched off pc before motherboard had the chance to shut down. i cracked open case and low and behold the heatsink was half off. i was stupid not to remove it for the journey (but its always been fine in the past). since pc didnt auto shut down, i knew cpu musnt have exceeded the max ~80C or not for very long, but was still worried i fried my cpu.
i bent the pins of the arctic freezer 7 pro back into place with plyers and forced it in (hopefully securely) and booted up. everything seems fine but i am asking u guys if u think i may have done any underlying damage, and wether i should replace my cooler for a proper one with backplate. I find myself quite lucky because if the second 2 pins came out it would have crashed straight into my 4850.
either way the moral of the story is; push and pull heatsinks = bad. buy a backplate cooler! (or be sensible and remove heatsink before transporting)
i bent the pins of the arctic freezer 7 pro back into place with plyers and forced it in (hopefully securely) and booted up. everything seems fine but i am asking u guys if u think i may have done any underlying damage, and wether i should replace my cooler for a proper one with backplate. I find myself quite lucky because if the second 2 pins came out it would have crashed straight into my 4850.
either way the moral of the story is; push and pull heatsinks = bad. buy a backplate cooler! (or be sensible and remove heatsink before transporting)