>    That was me.... :) I fried two AMD athlons due to poor cooling.

I guess I was lucky with mine, after I finished the build I proceeded to 
install Windows (IIRC it was Win98) and it kept blue-screen and 
switching off about 2 mins into the install. After I repeated this a 
couple of times I decided to open up the case, and I found that the "Z" 
shaped bar that holds the heatsink down on the CPU had snapped in the 
middle and the heatsink (and fan) was hanging down not even touching the 
CPU. A quick fix (with a bit of track rod from a radio controlled car I 
had lying around) and miraculously it worked well for many years!

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