How can i prevent socketA center slugs from breaking off, heatsink falling off....

[DTT]

I am getting scared of those stories where people have been breaking their socket A's center slug from heatsinks like the FOP38/32-1. I HAVE the FOP32-1 on an Abit KT7A. Anyways, is there a good way of preventing the slug from eventually breaking off, thus making the quite heavy heatsink fall off and mess up some internal cards? I can 'ghetto' the socket by tying up some inslating wires or something to support the heatsink (thus reducing pressure on these seemingly weak center slugs), but any ideas for a NEATER way short of changing the FOP32-1 alltogether for the Swifttech/Taisol HSF's?

This is a preventive thingie im talking about. My socketA center slugs have not broken off YET...but to be on the safe side, i am asking this question

Well, would gluing the HSF directly on the CPU die with Arctic Silver Adhesive do something to ease the clip pressure on the weak plastic center slugs? Hmmm, i mean i have no intention of using or selling this Athlon anyways (so the permanent bond of the HS is no problem---but would it help at all?)...Any articles on this stuff? Ideas, etc?

 

[WarCon]

Do you take your hsf off very much? Because that is usually when the damage gets done. During removal and installation. If you are really worried get a couple of long cable ties and use the holes in your motherboard. But be careful to apply even pressure so you don't pull your heatsink uneven.

But honestly I wouldn't even worry about it.

If you break them you can buy a taisol that attaches to all three(two if one is broke) lugs on the socket.

 

[GrInNer]

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[gogeeta13]

for precation, i tied a string to one of the pins on my swifttech then tied that to the bar in my sx1030. that way it wont crash down onto my agp card and it'll make a loud sound so i hear it. I am trying to make a temp monitor that is tied to my power, so in the case my cpu temp jumps, it'll kill the power.