At Canada Computers in Toronto, circa 2009.

  • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldM
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    2 hours ago

    Good grief, that’s a fun one to see! How did the conversation go with the customer if you remember?

    Now I wonder what catastrophic damage my Noctua D15 would do. An unstoppable force cooler would hit my big ass GPU immovable object. That collision would trigger a big bang ray traced singularity localised entirely within my PC case.

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      1 hour ago

      I think they were a clueless computer user so I just told them what the problem was and how we fixed it went over their head. But we laughed good with my colleague. Falling coolers were common on Intel boards at the time when the retention brackets ware hooked with push-pins. Note this is the factory installed bracket on the board that’s fallen. 😄 It’s not a poorly installed cooler.