Laptops, and what (maybe) not to do with them · 9:28am Mar 15th, 2019
Things I learned today (some of them were learned the hard way):
- Upgrading a laptop three times at once is a either the dumbest idea ever or a big adventure filled with sunshine and rainbows, depending on how much you like having to repeatedly take apart your laptop
- Don't spend a lot gambling on used laptop CPUs on Ebay (I didn't spend much at all, but I'd be mad if I did because it's looking like maybe there was a reason this thing got pulled from whatever it was originally in)
- Laptop heatsinks are weird
- If you have to remove a laptop CPU heatsink and don't realize going in that it requires a replacement thermal pad (not paste) because it also sinks a GPU, you're gonna have a bad time
- Newegg.com carries replacement thermal pad material, yay
- I don't have a working laptop until Monday
It's been a very interesting day.
P.S., all this tomfoolery doesn't affect writing on Sunrise. I do that on my desktop.
You know you’re living on the edge (and/or in an engineering college) when your secondhand laptop heatsink is bonded to the cpu with the help of a couple pennies soaked in thermal paste, and the battery is being recharged by a labratory benchtop power supply from eBay that you really hope is delivering the right voltage.
Such was my roommate’s tale of computer woe.
I could never trust myself with fixing technology
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That tale fits your username well. :)