Please take a moment to mourn the loss of my faithful CPU, who died this morning in a blaze of heat :'(
jwenting 1,889 duckman Team Colleague
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
OMG It actually caught on fire! :-O
jwenting 1,889 duckman Team Colleague
not literally, seems I was in time to turn the thing off before permanent damage was done to the motherboard.
Getting a new CPU from a friend (who has connections ;) ) tomorrow, and already got me a massive CPU cooler to put on top of it just in case.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
my core2+ no heatsink or fan went to 180c before catching fire and melting - took about 15 seconds tops
explodinghead75 2 Junior Poster in Training
my core2+ no heatsink or fan went to 180c before catching fire and melting - took about 15 seconds tops
Why were you running it with no heat sink and fan???
Let me guess, you go cliff diving on the weekends? :)
madoverclocker 13 Junior Poster
not unlike the results i got while trying to over clock and over volt an amd windsor 65w 4200 x2. i'm a huge fan of amd, but i can't see why they thought it would be a good idea to make a low watt 90nm cpu...
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Why were you running it with no heat sink and fan???
Let me guess, you go cliff diving on the weekends?
lol, no , the HSF assembley came unclipped while the comp was being transported in the car and i only discovered that afer switching it on ;)
explodinghead75 2 Junior Poster in Training
Oh, I better be careful to install CPU and fan correctly when I build my first system; this is one is just too old to upgrade. I'll probably go with AMD/ASUS. I had a k6-2 500 with ASUS mobo that worked great for years.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
yeah i have a system like that, noname asian motehrboard and a Pentium 3 933mhz. Has run happily for nearly 8 years
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