frying chips

Penny Arcade! Cardboard and Steel
I smoked an Athlon 1GHz once. The cooling fan failed, and now I have a memento to remind me that fans should not be skimmped on. That and Artic-Silver is worth the money. $6-7 last time I checked which should be enough to do 20-30 ships at least...

You may not know this, but there is an odor that accompanies the heat destruction of an Athlon 2100 . It is not terribly unpleasant by itself, but when you realize that you have reduced your machine to a doorstop (or a boat anchor, if you prefer to see things in a nautical framework) you might make a sound like a chimp. That's what I did, just a little animal yelp. Seven pages worth of humans answered my call for assistance, and you might note that I did post up until a certain point - it is easy to figure out what happened.