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Article #163Re: Utility to obtain CPU temperature
From: Tony Houghton
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:18
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:18
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:00:48 -0500 kony <spam@spam.com> wrote: > Athlons did not fry themselves without some overt system > builder mistake like not putting a heatsink on, choosing > some $3 'sink for a 50W chip so the fan failed, etc. > Granted it would've been nice if they had a thermal trip > feature at that point, but it really wasn't that big of a > deal, who really wants to have to depend on a system > shutting off instead of never doing so by building it right > in the first place? Even if fans did fail, short of the heatsink faling right off, did they really fry or just crash? I think they tended to accidentally save themselves by drawing less power while crashed. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
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