Just needs to drop the voltage and the clock down to 500Mhz and then no heatsink required.
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Eons ago, I had a guy bring me a non functioning Compaq desktop and say, "Wull the fan was makin' a lotta racket so I greased it."
What he actually meant was, "I sprayed the entire motherboard with WD-40 because I don't know shit about computers OR lubricants."
I gave it a bath in electronics cleaner and it actually fired right up after that.
~~Well, for the last... 10? 15? years, it would be just a slow sluggish experience. They under/overclock depending on cooling capacity.~~
TIL: they get too hot still and thermal shutdown. Guess i overestimated the flat surface cooling.
A CPU without a heatsink on it reaches TJMax within seconds, so it would pretty much instantly shut down (just like in the title)...
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Ah a mainboard with a dust protection-layer.
I once installed Windows on a Pentium 3 without cooler - not on purpose though - and it worked!
Well, installing the OS was on purpose, the CPU being without cooler not so much.
Apparently modern CPUs are snow flakes 🤓
Apparently modern CPUs are snow flakes 🤓
I think you're confused about how heatsinks work.
For reference: modern CPUs are a lot of hot air. 😁
I beg to differ. I'm fairly sure I've heard about meltdown on modern CPUs.
Are you really sure they aren't snowflakes?
Tell them to switch to water cooling. You will get an even more awesome picture.
Wifi cooling!
DIWHY does that look like an old AMD socket? (Or lga 775)
I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.
Looks like an ASUS A320M-C based on the very hard to read text and the layout.
https://motherboarddb.com/motherboards/378/
So an early AMD AM4 motherboard.
Your pixels to text capabilities are clearly superior to mine. I stand corrected.
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You'd be mistaken, Intel hasn't had a clip mounting system since socket 370 P3 days. Even P4 on 423 had 4 corner mounting systems and all of the Intel systems had them since.
The cheapo aluminum coolers from Intel always had that rotated design to get a little bit more surface area in the same volume. With the age of this system Intel had copper pucks in the middle of their heatsinks. It wasn't till later they went full aluminum. This is very clearly an AM4 motherboard as seen by the mounting.
Like the other commenter pointed out, it's an A320M-C board, it says right on it.
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