Scansure

[divine]

Just noticed this when browsing their site earlier.

A 28 insurance style policy to cover you if you do something silly and break a bit of your nice new computer while you're building.

When you think about it, it's surprising no one has really tried that before (that I know of) as it could well provide a lot reassurance that if you drop that nice new £250 Core i7 motherboard and it breaks, you can just have a new one.

I'm interested to see if anyone else like Novatech, OcUK or eBuyer follow suit.

[iCraig]

I remember somebody building their PC once, I was new and just watching and it was all top of the range at the time. It had a socket A motherboard, and the heatsink seemed springloaded or something. He needed to attach the first clips, then push the other one down hard and clip it on, they used a screwdriver for accuracy but slipped and punched a flathead shaped hole through the board.

That sort of protection is a good idea.

[Streeteh]

Originally Posted by iCraig

I remember somebody building their PC once, I was new and just watching and it was all top of the range at the time. It had a socket A motherboard, and the heatsink seemed springloaded or something. He needed to attach the first clips, then push the other one down hard and clip it on, they used a screwdriver for accuracy but slipped and punched a flathead shaped hole through the board.

Lol, that happened to me once minus the screwdriver hole, fortunately it was a 'test run' trying to figure out which of my screwdrivers fitted the clip best so i wasn't using much force. Turns out that one didn't fit too well. I remember my mum running into the room as when it slipped and whacked into the mobo i screamed 'oh sweet jesus!' (don't ask me why, just came out) and she thought i'd electrocuted myself or something.

Was my first time building a PC, i would have loved this sort of insurance policy at the time. Really nerve wrecking switching it on for the first time.

[SiD the Turtle]

Originally Posted by iCraig

I remember somebody building their PC once, I was new and just watching and it was all top of the range at the time. It had a socket A motherboard, and the heatsink seemed springloaded or something. He needed to attach the first clips, then push the other one down hard and clip it on, they used a screwdriver for accuracy but slipped and punched a flathead shaped hole through the board.

That sort of protection is a good idea.

That may have been me. We bought the HSF for an AMD Socket A and it wouldn't go on so we took it back to the shop (this being an independent parts and build store) and they went to fit it themselves. They tried to stretch the clip, it wouldn't budge and the screwdriver went straight through the board. Then we found out that it wasn't a Socket A HSF, but a Socket 1 (i.e. Intel) HSF.

They of course paid out for the replacement MB.

[NokkonWud]

Those heatsinks were truly awful, I hated building PC's for people at that time purely because of the risk of those heatsinks.

[Ben M]

I wonder how often they pay out for dead mobos because people don't use the standoffs

[Mark]

Socket A was hellish. Glad I never had to install a HSF on it (got someone else to do it). There's a lot to be said for headspreaders tbh.

[divine]

I never actually had an issue with Socket A. Took a bit of force but it wasn't too bad. Socket 939 was just as bad, I assume 754 probably was though I have no idea what Intel were doing before their push pin method. Last Intel chip I had was so old it just had a small heatsink with no fan glued to the CPU.

[NokkonWud]

754 and 939 were both incredibly simple. Socket A was much worse IMO.
Worst I've ever fitted is my Titan Amanda though, was a total pita with just one person, lol.

[Will]

It was much simpler when CPUs didn't need heatsinks!!

I think this is quite a good idea, wonder how feasible and where the "catch" is....