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Building A Boot: HSF needed? (short answer: yes)

Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf

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I've read never to do this as your CPU could instantly fry or something 😕. But it didn't happen to me with old P4's I didn't care about. They heat up fairly quickly, but I just turned a fan on and directed it toward the CPU to make it safer. Everything was fine even after a few minutes.

So to make the "boot build" quicker, have you ever left off the HSF?

EDIT: Haha, just tried with a 2500K. Bad idea... 97C reported when I entered the BIOS of the P8Z68-V PRO. And it was burning hot to the touch. So I guess with high-performance quads it's not such a good idea. :biggrin:
 
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on an atom 330, sure. I've tried it on a celeron 420 too, but I killed the power once it got hot to touch. I didnt have the guts to see if it would fry. It did boots before it got super hot.
 
Even though it SHOULD be ok (should shutdown automatically due to heat), I personally wouldn't recommend it. The high temperatures may have some negative effects on the CPU down the road.

It only takes a few extra minutes to attach a stock Intel HSF.
 
The CPU needs to have functional thermal protections built-in, plus the motherboards need to support those protections. P4 did have those protections (as well as probably every Intel CPU since). If you tried it with any socket A CPU, it would have fried.

I sometimes don't affix the heatsink to the motherboard or plug in the fan, but if I'm just quick testing, I always at least sit the heatsink on top of the CPU (with a speck of TIM).
 
Haha, just tried with a 2500K. Bad idea... 97C reported when I entered the BIOS of the P8Z68-V PRO. And it was burning hot to the touch. So I guess with high-performance quads it's not such a good idea. :biggrin:
 
Hey, nobody ever said it would be cool. The fact that it didn't burn up or hard lock is pretty awesome.
 
Forgot to say I did have a large fan blowing on it. Also I think ASUS's sensor isn't accurate, it probably wasn't 97C, but it was damn hot that's for sure.
 
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