"Ben Pope" wrote in message
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Buffalo wrote:
To add to the other replies.
If the heatsink/fan fails on an AMD, it will most like 'fry' and be
ruined.

How can a heatsink fail?

Besides, Asus boards for example come with CPU Overheat Protection
(C.O.P.),
as do most other boards, so unlikely to 'fry'.

If the heatsink/fan fails on an Intel, it will most like just
go into its 'Fail-Safe' type mode and run much slower, but not fry.

No difference then...

Ben
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If the heatsink comes off of a p4 will it continue to operate without going
shibam, I think that's the big Q
THG seems to think that it will throttle itself down fast enough when the
HSF is removed so that no harm will come to it
where the "Athlons" will just go psst.

I THINK that the Opt's and A64's will have this "Throttle" feature added to
them, so that will prove interesting. I was actually wondering if it was
possible to throttle a system like that normally too, I leave my pc on
overnight but its idle most of that time (keeping connections alive, ect) so
I would love to turn my xp down to about 50mhz fsb when I go to bed, and
shut the system fans off