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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:16:08 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   Ha, not sure how I’m going to get the old giant heat sink off my wife’s old board for storage. This was a prebuilt machine so I’ve never had to deal with it before. It covers its own mounting screw and while there’s a helpful hole drilled all the way through, I don’t have a Philips screwdriver long enough to reach all the way down - it needs to be about 14cm long (insert lewd joke here)

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     Doug Binks (dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:17:58 JST Doug Binks

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     @sinbad One of my older air coolers came with it's own long screwdriver because of this.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:26:35 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     AHA in one of my toolboxes I found a weird L-shaped Philips head screwdriver which is extra long. I don’t know if this came with the prebuild or not, it was too many years ago. But my principle of keeping any tool I ever find has paid off

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:27:03 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Doug Binks

     @dougbinks I just found something in one of my toolboxes, maybe it came with the machine years ago and I just kept it & forgot about it

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     Yora (yora@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:28:57 JST Yora

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     @sinbad The passive cooler on my computer is so huge, it also came with a very long screwdriver so you could get at the screws at the base where a regular can't reach.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:36:52 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     There we go, cooler is off and IHS is all nice and cleaned off with some IA. This was a good chip at the time, I’m sure I can find a use for it somewhere

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:37:25 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Yora

     @yora yeah I found one in my toolbox in the end

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     Jon Stevens (jonstevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 01:45:20 JST Jon Stevens

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     @sinbad looks like a new local build server to me