is burning a pentium 4 CPU possible?

[MaxFusion16]

I'm just curious as to the possiblity of burning a pentium 4 CPU since intel has implemented a thermal protection feature in the CPU that will automatically decrease the speed of the CPU to reach a safe temperature once it overheats. So with that protection, is it still possible to burn the CPU?

 

[Soulkeeper]

you would have to actually try to burn it (ie putting a torch to the heatsink)
you can even take the heatsink off during mid operation as has been shown at tomshardware
it pretty much slows it down as much as neccesary
i havn't heard any cirtcumstances in which someone has burned one

 

[sonoran]

You'd be exceedingly unlikely to fry a P4 using default voltage, no matter how fast you try to run it. It would just start throttling itself back when it got too hot.

If you're overvolting the CPU, that could be an entirely different story...

 

[Barrei]

Overclocking it won't do it either , most motherboards will only take it to 1.85volts , its all about heat , overclocking needs higher voltages which produce more heat , once it reaches 67c it will throttle down or shut down . My 2 cents.

 

[link26]

of course you can fry your northwood. two guys over at overclockers.com already did..... by overvolting the cpu.

one guy had water cooling, so his temps were normal most likely....

Frying a P4 probably looks nothing like frying an athlon though..

 

[imported_zenwhen]

Yes, you can but you arent all that likely to do it accidentally. When you overvolt a CPU, you either do it not knowing what it is and what the dangers are, or you do it knowing the risks.

If you dont know the risks you shouldnt even be in bios.

If you *do* know the risks and you overvolt and subsequentially fry your northwood... then you got what you knew you *could* get.

This is the price we pay for performance.

 

[Barrei]

I guess I was wrong , hey link 26 do you remember what the voltage was when those guys fried there P4 cpu's ?