Right, back in the days AMD CPUs lacked thermal protection and would die quickly if the heatsink wasn't mounted properly[1]. Intel had thermal protection and wo

Right, back in the days AMD CPUs lacked thermal protection and would die quickly if the heatsink wasn't mounted properly[1]. Intel had thermal protection and would just clock down the CPU. These days there's a lot of protection built in. For example, the voltage regulator ICs they use on the motherboard should all have thermal, over-current, under-voltage and other protection built-in. So yeah I do think it's newsworthy that a modern CPU can burn itself up. I would not expect that, even overclocked. [1]: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/how-long-would-it-take-an-athlon-to-fry-with-no-heatsink.626904/ https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/how-long-would-it-take...