hmm...prehaps their first mistake was using that damned inflammable propellant, it's always going around and igniting. Prehaps if they had used flammable propellant, all of this could have been avoided...typos baby, wohoo!
Sorry, not a typo.
Er... well, I've got an athlon 500, running at 650. One day the fan fell off the heatsink (been messing with it), and you know what happened? I noticed in motherboard monitor (win98 prog) that my heatsink temp was 20 degrees higher than normal. So because I overclock, I realized something was wrong early. And because of my extremely large heatsink, the chip wasn't damaged, because it was dissipating heat so well. That intel retail heatsink and fan really sucks at removing heat. If the intel fan ever died (which it is more likely to do than a high quality ball bearing aftermarket fan) than that tiny heatsink they give you would hardly do anything to remove heat. So a retail heatsink and fan are more likely to destroy a cpu if the fan fails, and the fan IS more likely to fail! My point? I'd be more worried about someone else's cpu overheating than my own because I do so much to treat it well. My big complaint about overclocking CPU's is that while you can get better heatsink/fan units with thermal glue to better dissipate the heat when you overclock the CPU, what happens if the fan dies? This could result in a Chernobyl-like meltdown of the CPU, and you'll be out US$65 to US$200 for a lower-speed overclocked CPU that is now useless. This is especially true of the AMD Athlon CPU, because the Athlon CPU runs quite hot even when NOT overclocked.
What I wanna see is a home for all my arcane console video games that failed. The 3do, the jaguar, the saturn, the Virtual Boy, perhaps the turbo grafix 16. I've loved these machines. And now they've retired to a small box in my room. If only I had a digital camera....
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Er... well, I've got an athlon 500, running at 650. One day the fan fell off the heatsink (been messing with it), and you know what happened? I noticed in motherboard monitor (win98 prog) that my heatsink temp was 20 degrees higher than normal. So because I overclock, I realized something was wrong early. And because of my extremely large heatsink, the chip wasn't damaged, because it was dissipating heat so well. That intel retail heatsink and fan really sucks at removing heat. If the intel fan ever died (which it is more likely to do than a high quality ball bearing aftermarket fan) than that tiny heatsink they give you would hardly do anything to remove heat. So a retail heatsink and fan are more likely to destroy a cpu if the fan fails, and the fan IS more likely to fail! My point? I'd be more worried about someone else's cpu overheating than my own because I do so much to treat it well. My big complaint about overclocking CPU's is that while you can get better heatsink/fan units with thermal glue to better dissipate the heat when you overclock the CPU, what happens if the fan dies? This could result in a Chernobyl-like meltdown of the CPU, and you'll be out US$65 to US$200 for a lower-speed overclocked CPU that is now useless. This is especially true of the AMD Athlon CPU, because the Athlon CPU runs quite hot even when NOT overclocked.
What I wanna see is a home for all my arcane console video games that failed. The 3do, the jaguar, the saturn, the Virtual Boy, perhaps the turbo grafix 16. I've loved these machines. And now they've retired to a small box in my room. If only I had a digital camera....