Cpu post test, heatsink needed?

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It really is better practice to put a heat sink on the CPU before booting. If something goes wrong you could fry a perfectly good CPU just to save a few seconds of installing the heat-sink.

You might be able to get away with it, though I certainly don't recommend it.

From another similar post:

"Todays processors create so much waste heat that it will only take a few seconds for it to go into thermal shut down. Running a CPU without a fan and heatsink is a sure fire way to fry your CPU and when it's fried you can argue with Intel all you want but they aren't going to replace it."
It really is better practice to put a heat sink on the CPU before booting. If something goes wrong you could fry a perfectly good CPU just to save a few seconds of installing the heat-sink.

You might be able to get away with it, though I certainly don't recommend it.

From another similar post:

"Todays processors create so much waste heat that it will only take a few seconds for it to go into thermal shut down. Running a CPU without a fan and heatsink is a sure fire way to fry your CPU and when it's fried you can argue with Intel all you want but they aren't going to replace it."
 
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