Originally posted by: SunnyD
Why are you knocking your computer over silly?
I live/work on a ship and she moves (sometimes a LOT!) and when I (foolishly) leave my boxes unlocked, this can happen!
Originally posted by: Idontcare
The stress from g-forces when the rig contacted the floor was going to continue build until weakest component failed.
Be happy you had pushpins that popped first, the torque on your mobo had you used a backplate would have likely caused serious traceline fractures (creating a walking wounded mobo) at best, and at worst would have cracked the mobo.
I'm going to venture a guess here and assume your mobo replacement cost is higher than your HSF replacement cost, both of which are probably worth significantly less than your time if you had to spend days frustrated by debugging a walking wounded mobo.
ALL of my bolt on's have survived with no damage to mobo/cpu. (well after the memory and cards get put back in their respective slots!)
Years ago Swiftech took their awesome MCX-462 on a thunderbird and
threw the system out a second story window and the system was OK except for the trashed chassis! :laugh:
Those mounts did not even have a backplate - just screws and washer hardware.
Some chassis' are also modified (socket 771 ones are ready out of the box) so the heatsink is bolted through the board and right to the chassis.
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