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FIFO

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Here is a good question that I hope someone can answer/corroborate.

If one were to run an Athlon 1.33 t-bird without a HSF, could it damage the motherboard and not just the CPU?

This actually happened (not by my hand!) and the CPU is toast, but the board that worked fine before this person got his hands on it, appears to now have a dead AGP slot.

Thanks,
Jason.
 
Originally posted by: FIFO
Here is a good question that I hope someone can answer/corroborate.

If one were to run an Athlon 1.33 t-bird without a HSF, could it damage the motherboard and not just the CPU?

This actually happened (not by my hand!) and the CPU is toast, but the board that worked fine before this person got his hands on it, appears to now have a dead AGP slot.

Thanks,
Jason.
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yes..other components can suffer as well <edit> typo
 
Yes sure ... the dying CPU might short out the voltage regulators on the mainboard. That in turn might overload the power supply, which in turn might freak out and supply too high voltages to everything else. Desaster avalanche ...
 
it happened to me once on an A7V ,HSF dead and almost everything xcept the VGA,CDROM,HDD,PSU, are toast.....
 
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