Thread: PC Has Died
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Old 08-09-2008, 23:09   #23
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Re: PC Has Died
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Originally Posted by DaiNasty View Post
I'm amazed at what some of the recent CPUs can tolerate. I had an AMD box recently with the cooler upside down and kicked up at one end. It couldn't have had more than a thin line of contact with the heat spreader and yet it didn't burn out. Incredible..
yep.

I think even p2/p3's would't burn out, p3's would just Halt, P4's would speedstep to a stupidly slow speed but carry on going.


it was the early athlon XP's that used to go into meltdown

Bit like this really.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yRn8ri...eature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xG0sGu...eature=related
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