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On Monday 19 June 2006 21:00, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > You accelerate nothing. Bit heaven? A CPU without a fan will go into > a cold, cold, shutdown, requiring a hardware reset to get it out of > that latched, no internal clock running, mode. Try it. I have had > broken plastic heat-sink hold-downs let the entire heat-sink fall off > the CPU. The machine just stops. I didn't know why it was stopping That may well be true for Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Ahtlon64/Opteron CPUs but it is definitely *not* what happens on older AMD CPUs. Actually we have had a case of smoke coming out of a box when the heatsink fan on an Ahtlon XP CPU stopped. You could still smell the burnt plastic from the socket the next day in the room ;-) And I personally know of a least another case with an Athlon XP. I think Intel used to be better than AMD concerning CPU casing and the size of the area in thermal contact with the heatsink, but not anymore. Opteron/Athlon64 case seems to be at least as good as Intel's, and the chips should now have thermal throttling, though I haven't tried it! Regards Cláudio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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