[ale] Help for Father In Florida

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 23:00, Geoffrey wrote:
> linux wrote:
> > 
> > pre installing makes more bulk, more possibilities
> > of damage during shipping, but I had thought that
> 
> All the big comp. companies ship machines with processors installed. 
> Granted, the're packed in cases which are packed in boxes, but I would 
> thing that if you pack it right, it should be fine.

Heat sinks are a big shipping problem. Monarch has several really large
copper monsters that, due to their weight, can't be shipped installed on
a system board. The brackets that support them were not designed for the
bouncing the boxes get in shipment. I don't want to think about the
damage to a motherboard that can happen after a large block of metal is
set loose bouncing around inside a pc case :(

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