Some of us have been upgrading or tweaking our beloved pc's for years, others a few months.
Mine was one of my first builds, i'd just bought myself an awesome 486 dx25 and a kick ass board to go with it, this was to replace my 386/16 philips (that had the most amazing bios i've ever seen you could literally change everything and destroy your board with one click).
So I get this board home and it won't fit into the desk top case, not only that but I realised i'd forgotten to buy the heatsink, this was my first cpu that required one.
Solution:
Remove top of case, ledge board at an angle on said top (covering any metal contacts between case and board with masking tape), plug in all connectors and boards, a small dab of superglue to hold the board in place, and a large flat head screw driver resting on the cpu to act as a heatsink, a little bit of masking tape to make it secure.
I kept that build as is for about 6 months.
Mine was one of my first builds, i'd just bought myself an awesome 486 dx25 and a kick ass board to go with it, this was to replace my 386/16 philips (that had the most amazing bios i've ever seen you could literally change everything and destroy your board with one click).
So I get this board home and it won't fit into the desk top case, not only that but I realised i'd forgotten to buy the heatsink, this was my first cpu that required one.
Solution:
Remove top of case, ledge board at an angle on said top (covering any metal contacts between case and board with masking tape), plug in all connectors and boards, a small dab of superglue to hold the board in place, and a large flat head screw driver resting on the cpu to act as a heatsink, a little bit of masking tape to make it secure.
I kept that build as is for about 6 months.
