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Building my new machine I made a major booboo. I installed everything and turned the box on- totally forgetting that I had popped the cpu in with no heat sink! It hadnt been delivered yet so there was no box to remind me that I was missing something. I saw this of course immediately after the machine shut itself off. Idiot.

The cpu is an e6600 and the motherboard is an evga 680i LT.

So the $235 question is, did I fry my cpu, or are modern mobos/cpus smart enough to shut themselves down before they melt? To protect themselves from morons like myself?

I guess Ill find out definitively when the heat sink arrives, but the not knowing is killing me...

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Thankfully manufacturers take these sorts of booboos into account when they design stuff. They protect us from ourselves! :D

Reply to JCon
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Ah, most excellent news. Would be a shame to roast my machine without ever having really turned it on...

Thanks!

Reply to nicros

This is Houston , false alarm repeat false alarm , moron syndrome approaching take caution ---Houston out :lol:

Reply to slashzapper
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Cpu's are designed to shut down to prevent such mishaps as inadvertantly forgetting to install the heatsink.Nothing overheats to the point of frying these days.At least not often.You should be good to go as soon as your HS arrives.Goodluck.

Dahak

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Reply to Dahak

You're darn lucky you didn't have an old socket A Duron in there! BOOM!
:lol:

Reply to Cybercraig

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You're darn lucky you didn't have an old socket A Duron in there! BOOM!
:lol:


Anybody have a link to the old THG video where they pulled the heatsinks off of P3, P4, and the original Athlon under load? The intels all throttled to save themselves, but the AMDs, well, BOOM! about sums it up. I assume AMD has fixed that by now and I know Intel still has the throttling.

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