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This was my first question as well- I thought it had been a long, long time since you could fry a CPU by taking away the heatsink. As in... what, AMD K6 / earl
by mk_stjames 1y ago
This was my first question as well- I thought it had been a long, long time since you could fry a CPU by taking away the heatsink.
As in... what, AMD K6 / early Pentium 4 days was the last time I remember hearing about cpu cooler failing and frying a cpu?
- Twirrim 1y agoIt was some time around then. I remember AMD being late to it vs Intel.
- dwood_dev 1y agoAthlon era when AMD had no IHS but Intel had one. Intel also had thermal controls that AMD lacked. I once worked on a piece of equipment that was running awful slow. The CPU was just not budging from its base clock of 700Mhz. As I was removing the stock Intel cooler, I noticed it wasn't seated fully. Once I removed it and looked I saw a perfectly clean CPU with no residue. I looked at the HSF, the original thermal paste was in pristine condition. I remounted the HSF and it worked great. It ran 100% throttled for seven years before I touched it.
- userbinator 1y agoThis infamous video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06MYYB9bl70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06MYYB9bl70
- p_l 1y agoK6 depended on motherboard having thermal sensors - and which had to properly attach to the CPU in the first place. Built-in thermal sensing came later.