Back in the day (2001) Tom's pulled the heatsinks off several AMD and Intel processors just to see what would happen. If memory serves all the AMD chips burned up. The older Intel chips locked up and the newer (back then) Intel chips kept running at a much slower speed but all the Intel chips survived.
link to old Tom's article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/17/hot_spot/index.html
I've tried to search for info on current thermal solutions but I'm not finding any info. I assume that AMD has fixed this problem years ago but I can not verify my hunch. Anybody got hard facts/links?
link to old Tom's article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/17/hot_spot/index.html
I've tried to search for info on current thermal solutions but I'm not finding any info. I assume that AMD has fixed this problem years ago but I can not verify my hunch. Anybody got hard facts/links?