[Socrates]

Upstairs I have a "brand new" Intel based mainboard that is actually about 6 years old now. It has the old style of cpu seat where the hat sink just clips right to the plastic. About 30 seconds after I had the heatsink in place, I heard a snap. The plastic broke away and it became impossible to install a heat sink. I took it back to PC Club, since it was clearly a weak piece of plastic. They have/had a specific policy about not taking back mainboards if the plastic gives way. They had a little corporate information sheet to hand out and everything (in color) which had a picture that looked almost identical to the break on my board... which led me to believe that it must happen a lot. It only ever happened to me once, and I used to handle several dozen of the things a year.

I searched in vane to find a heat sink that I could clip on to the other rotrusions or screw or glue on, but no luck, so in the end I just had to buy a new one.