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But back in the P4 days man was it easy to melt your expensive processor. They didn't have fancy things like thermal shutdown then either.
by slededit 9y ago
But back in the P4 days man was it easy to melt your expensive processor. They didn't have fancy things like thermal shutdown then either.
- wtallis 9y agoThermal shutdown was added fairly early in the P4 days. I recall a Tom's Hardware video showing removing the heatsink from a P4 while it was running Quake 3 and the framerate tanking but no crash, while the Athlon (XP?) next to it went up in smoke when the heatsink was removed.
- jotm 9y agoThat was for AMDs, and I believe by the time of Pentium 4, even Athlons had thermal safeties. I remember quick testing (see if it powers on) Pentium 3s, Celerons and P4s without the heatsink - they even managed to boot Windows before shutting down lol. Same for GPUs.
- slededit 9y agoI managed to melt one by incorrectly applying a heatsink. Years later we did some "experiments" on an old P4 to test the cooling capabilities of scotch. It's not effective FYI.