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The Joys Of Losing Your Cooling Device

Posted by Hemos on from the burn-baby-burn dept.

nitecreep wrote to us about Tom's latest article: What happens to procs when the heatsinks fall off?. Having just had my brand new fan stop working on my computer, I can sympathize. I've found that it takes my 1.2 Ghz Athlon to reach 80 degrees Celsius in about 6 minutes, from time of starting machine. The results of running without a heatsink at all are....interesting.

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  2. I thought so. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've always said AMD is shite and continued buying Intel devices. The same morons who like the AMD probably prefer FreeBSD over Linux, so I'm not surprised even in the slightest.