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Old March 23rd, 2008   #19 (permalink)
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hmm that reminds me..when i was at microcenter for my interview, i met a guy who had a water cooling system. the pump broke while he was at work, and his cpu temp was leveled at 120c when he got home. i don't know how his cpu survived it..
Seems the thermal throttling was working as intended. I've seen a video on youtube where, I think it was Tomshardware, were doing some Quake 3 stress testing, only to remove the heatsink during the test. The AMD CPU smoked (athlon XP I think), but the Intel P4 survived.

They had an FPS counter in it, and you could see the framerate drop into single digits for the P4, but it did survive.
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