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right well i got around to getting it apart enough to re-seat the ram earlier today
 
and it fixed it

Hey Zanthros, Amusingly all I had was 2000 Grit paper so you can imagine how long I was at it (2 hours) though the surface even around the dinged and bump is smoother now though as we know most of the time that doesnt give much of a difference as luke showed in a video, but I think I sorted the issue getting rid of the dings and bump
 
As for how it happened, I would hazard a guess it was just poor manufacturing from Asus, Given it was originally the lowest possible version of the K53E maybe they just chucked the junk coolers on those knowing the B800 Celery's are only 1.5GHz compared to the i5 2450m's 2.5GHz to 2.9GHz
 
Some may have said I should have just got a new notebook but to be honest my notebook does all I need and thats all I can ask for! I also wanted to follow up on my own post since I hate when people never follow up or only put "Fixed now"  better to share information than not is how I roll

No spare hand me downs around to pass onto him and then use the money for some upgrades instead? I normally avoid any DDR2 machines at this point, the only exception is an older Acer netbook I have with a light linux distro.
 
Why not ask around family and friends and see if there is a 1st or 2nd gen i series computer kicking around that you could just upgrade a little and that should keep him going. That's what I would do at least

My uncle use to work at AMD so I expect some serious cards

Check that the card is not overheating, I have seen that happen on pic's I have worked on. With summer rolling in it would be the ideal time for that to happen. If possible move it as far from your GPU's as possible or consider a side fan