[GRLUG] Burn up the CPU - NOT LINUX

[Jeff DeMaagd]

I think that saved me a CPU once, the heat sink's fan stalled out and 
the computer would shut down after a while. I don't know why there 
wasn't a warning anywhere though.

I have some computers that immediately shut down if you stall a fan, 
they read a tachometer in the fan.



On 12/7/12 12:27 PM, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> The Pentium 4 was the first modern x86 with built-in thermal
> protection reliable and effective enough to save the CPU from damaging
> itself in the case of catastrophic heatsink failure - it falling off,
> for instance.
>
> All of Intel's stuff prior, and all of AMD's stuff for some time after
> that could be convinced to cook themselves under the right
> circumstances.  Sometimes with as little effort as a stopped fan, or
> dust-clogged heatsink.

-- 
Jeff
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