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well long story short, my heat sink was not working for some time now. that was rectified by getting a new heatsink. But even after that, my PC kept freezing and overheating and what not. eventually, 2 days ago, my PC decided to give up on me. My AMD X2 5600+ 64bit processor died leaving the entire setup without a working brain.

Now I have filed an RMA with AMD (or at least am going to now) to have it replaced. Luckily I have internet on my phone, but it can't edit word documents. So i have come to a netcafe... an experience I had long forgotten... (which is, I dunno, a good thing or bad... you see, a real hot girl just walked in!!)..

anyhoo, so the entire pickup and replace process is gonna take more than 15 days. So my machine is a dead machine for that time. I no longer have my sister's Aspire One or any laptop @ home...

so the bottomline is, for those who care, that I won't be online as much. I could still access internet from my workplace (like always lol) but apparently wee are getting a new sys admin who I've been told, is gonna screw peoples donkey regarding net connectivity. Luckily I am in that department that needs full internet access, so I don't think I'll have any tabs or bars on which sites I visit.

One good thing taht can happen from this episode is that now I can prioritize getting a laptop. I have been puttong tht of for quite some time now. oh well...

well, anyways.. the point is that I ,ay not be on as much... so it be awesome if someone will fill up on wats been on later!

well... later. be good
:( ,.. broken cpu, hot girl, RMA, useless admin, new laptop! << be back soon!!
Oh man!! Another one bites the dust :/
Well migh be back which is good, hopefully everything works out for you. :\
damn sucks about the overheating...what caused it....just not noticing the heatsink was dead quick enough?

Cya soon, and get a lappy!!!! Doooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeett
spoon man. balls about that cpu. if i were in your situation i wouldn't be able to live without a working pc at home. i'd go down to the local pc store and buy the cheapest CPU i could that would fit.

at home i have a total of 6 (mine, brothers, dads, ghetto computer (remember that? still going strong!), and my parents'  work laptops) usable computers so if ever mine breaks i always have another i  can use. this is annoying for the rest of my family as my computer seems to break on a daily basis. usually because i changed some setting i wasn't meant to.

so far though i haven't had a single hardware failure except a fan that seized. luckily speedfan noticed something was wrong and alerted me before anything went bang.
Balls to mobile internet. Its so slow n expensive over here.
Thanks all! It turns out tht i kno the admin frm my MCSE days. He stuck to that. So...

I don't think I'll invest in another cpu.
How the cpu fried, is beyond me. It just started overheating only a week back or so. I can only attribute it to overclocking.  
I'd love to get a laptop but lets c!!!

Hope to be back properly soon...
ok see ya
Hmm, my AthlonX2 4200+ gets hot in use, but I don't overclock (see little use in it).

Thought the newer X2 series were meant to be more efficient...  AM2 CPUs are pretty cheap - I could pick up a Sempron for AU$40 (probably cheaper over where you are), but then, it's kinda a waste if it's only going to be used for 15 days.

Best of luck!
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