Well, not really just the Northbridge. Read a thread a while back on a different forum that showed a guy that replaced all the screws on his Gigabyte board (Northbridge, PWM and Southbridge) with a machine screw. These are apparantly 1cm in length with a mini-nut and a paper washer to protect the motherboard. Few questions though:
- Has anyone done this?
- Was it worth it?
- Are these the kinda screws you can get in your local DIY store, or are they more specialist? If so, where?
- What thickness (mm) or screw is needed? The forum post didn't specify.
- Will this invalidate a warranty? (Guessing they couldn't tell regardless if you RMA'd it with the plastic pins back in)
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