AHhhh i almost killed my computer!!

[Tu13erhead]

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[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Injury

Originally posted by: sheik124
Ah I remember that THG video, pretty cool. Its nice how the P4 actually STAYED ON, would an Athlon 64 do the same or just throttle till it got too hot and shut off? I know that Cool n Quiet has to be on for it to throttle.

That's usually a feature of the motherboard, not the processor.

Most AMD motherboards shut down immediately when the temp reaches a set level. No shutdown screen, no beeping, nothing. Just straight power cut.

That's what my A7N8X-E used to do, once I tried to start it with an [apparantly] loose HSF after replacing the CPU, and it would come on for 2 seconds tops and kill the power. But AFAIK and remember from reading the actual THG article on that video, the power throttling was a feature of the P4 itself.

 

[Rebasxer]

I didn't notice the fan on my GPU had stopped working until in the middle of scrimming on de_inferno, my lovely italian streets turned into lines on my monitor. I quickly plugged the system, but now I have a nice zalman cooler on there, so its all good.

 

[hans007]

power throttling was a feature of the p4.

for pre athlon 64 cpus, those it was completely a motherboard thing (better boards like asus, know there is no fan connected). a lot of boards the chip would just burn right out.

 

[SparkyJJO]

not my computer but my dad's, forgot to plug the CPU fan in and left the comp run overnight.... comp was frozen in the morning, the heatsink was so hot you could burn your fingers on it, and it took quite a while for this heatsink to cool off. CPU had a L-shaped burn mark on it, but it still worked for awhile after that, tho eventually it did die a few months later

 

[Mo0o]

I think my shuttle can go quite awhile without a fan actually moving if im just doing routine stuff.