PCLINCS.CO.UK - BEWARE !

... (I've got a Mech.Eng degree)

So that makes you an authority?

crushed the core while trying to fit a heatsink OR that it was not
the
actual chip that he received and that he ordered one with the idea
of
sending back a faulty one and so hope to get a freebee.

It's possible. But I doubt anyone would be so foolish to do such a
thing then complain in the newsgroups.

This Minatour is an
obvious fraudster

"obvious fraudster"? That's libelous you know, you stated as such in
a public newsgroup.

and the muppets who are agreeing with him are his obvious
friends/dickheads ....

Ha, as much you could potentially be a friend of KMS. Nope, no friend
of mine, just making comments based on what I seen in the newsgroup
posting.

~ Adrian ~

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"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)