No offense, but that's about the worst thing you can do to a modern processor. The only reason the Intel didn't go up in smoke was because of proper on-die ther

No offense, but that's about the worst thing you can do to a modern processor. The only reason the Intel didn't go up in smoke was because of proper on-die thermal protection. You still should never boot a modern processor without the heat sink in place. The temperature will almost instantly exceed the thermal design limits of the materials. AMD's only poor decision was not to provide good thermal protection in their CPUs. Running the processor without a heat sink was your own poor decision.