[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[velociraptor]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
wrote:
> velociraptor wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
>>> Maybe I am just chicken, but I don't really want to install the CPU
>>> myself.  I suppose it might not be as bad as it was in the P4 days
>>> though.
>>
>> It's really not that bad now.  The CPUs drop right in these days, and
>> the heat sinks attachments are better designed if you go Intel (no
>> !#%^* clips, just screws through the top down to the backing plate
>> behind the mobo).  Unfortunately, AMD still has those !#%^* clips.
>
> I thought AMD boards used bolt-through heat sink mounts now, too....

The backing plate and support are, but the heat sink still uses a
clip.  The Intel bracket for the heat sink is screwed on.

=Nadine=

p.s. This weekend's insanity: I just successfully installed Gentoo
prefix on my Solaris 10 box. :-D