What happens when the CPU cooler is removed?

A video from 2001 from Tom's Hardware. They run quake 3 from different mobo/cpu's that were very common in that era and then take the cpu cooler (heatsink and/or fan) off. Its actually quite interesting to see which ones survive and which ones burn.

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• Hardware
• tom's
• tomshardware
• cpu
• cooling
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• quake3
• q3
• benchmark
• framerate
• 2001
• intel
• amd
• chips
• burning
• smoke

[RIKULA0]

Hahahaha what a fake,intels work on 40 C without cooler... hahahahaha

[addictedtogaming]

Not a fake... keep in mind these are P3s and AthlonXPs and not current generation.. yes, some of the intel line (specifically p2 (600MHz)) can run around 45C without any cooling, but not the generation shown in the video and definitely not in any generation of chip out today.

Either way, it is probly a good idea to not remove that cooler/heatsink/fan while it's running.

[Alientank]

Are you retarded? These tests are not fake at all. The old socket A chips really were brutal for cooling. They didn't have the safety switch that most AMD chips come with now to prevent frying. These are old cpu's atleast 5-6 years ago.

[Oerg866]

@DominusGhost pl.blaswede remix

[somainglove]

Hey! AMD Duron and Intel Core i5-2500(k)!

[DominusGhost]

Anyone knows the song name is cool

[jenison99]

pause at 1:05 i know the error says ' This program has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated ' because it has a classic error window so its windows 98

[MrFoamyGuy]

@legobaxter Hey it does look like a jet engine!!!!! i think it looks quite cooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!

[MrFoamyGuy]

you can't even download this exact same video when i download it, it just downloads the one with moving pixels!!!!!!!

[drjustin84]

@Alientank Now i think amd runs a lot cooler

[grisapa1]

@BlenderFreak2000 Good try on gaining thumbs up..