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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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  1. Re:Hello by bloggins02 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, at least he's somewhat talented with ASCII-art. Oh wait, that's probably not original either :-\