"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
geoff wrote:
To the best of my knowledge it's not handed. Looks to be symmetrical.

The voice of experience says

"CHECK"

I managed to get it wrong once

one way round the heatsink sits nicely on the CPU, the other way round
... it overheats because it doesn't

Well, it's been on the same way round since I built the machine and worked
ok for a year or so. I know this because of the cable to the fan.

But I'm not convinced it's a cooling problem. I'm thinking a broken track
or dry joint round about the CPU.

But just for you I'll turn it round...

No difference.

You were lucky if you did that!
Putting the heatsink the wrong way on older AMD CPUs would have destroyed
the chip!
The word was check not just try it.

You can get a new cpu and MB for about £99 which is probably the easiest
solution.