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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-528884877021355232&q=heat+sink

I think this video is a couple years old.
Interesting to see some CPU's go up in smoke.

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I'm not the LHC Alex. Just a number cruncher like everyone else here.

*lol*

Yeah, that was one of the biggest jokes TomsHardware (arguably the most disputed Hardware Review Site existing) had in that time.

The "test conditions" they claimed to "test" for was "CPU Cooler falls off in running System", absolutely hilarious and made them the laughter of Experts worldwide for weeks to come...

But still, a working demonstration of the Pentium 4's internal overheat protection circuitry (which probably saved the life of many of those little 'thermal reactors' over the years ;) )

PS.
During the test, the Athlon had no chance from the get-go (no protection at all or Disabled in BIOS), the early model Athlon 4 (to be later AthlonXP) thermal protection was either not yet implemented in the beta BIOS or disabled/non-functional.

Overall lesson learned from the "test" :
If you take off the CPU Cooler with your System powered on, then the Problem is (as usual) sitting 10 inches in front of the Monitor *g* )

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Scientific Network : 45000 MHz - 77824 MB - 1970 GB

The IBM Aptiva (AMD K6)I had never did have the Heatsink on correctly.

Found this out when I was vacuuming the dust off. Pressed down on the heatsink and 'click', it fell into place.

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I'm not the LHC Alex. Just a number cruncher like everyone else here.