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[fiask0]

I built my grandma a system using an ECS k7s5a and a duron 900. Well, sometime recently the fan on the heatsink died!! I noticed today by accident because the cd-rom drive wasn't working, opened the case, was really hot in there, touched the heatsink and burned the crap outta my hand. Booted up into bios to see what the temperture was.. 198F !!!!! HOLY SH(@!*@ I THOUGHT, I turned it off, noticed the fan of the heatsink had died. Mannn, luckily it didn't permanently harm the processor as I replaced the heatsink and fan, and it works perfectly, however, the ide cable that the cd-rom drive was on was partially melted from being close to the heatsink, causing the drive not to work. I gotta give that little duron props, it held in there and kept working. Just thought i'd share my story with all. Thanks.


** By the way, it was a coolermaster fan and heatsink***

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by fiask0 on 12/03/02 01:53 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[vk2amv]

Danm that was pretty hot to melt the IDE cable.

 

[fiask0]

dude you're telling me, it was hottttttttttttttttttttt in there, i'm really suprised that it didn't burn the processor out. the cable was maybe a few centimeters away from the heatsink, it wasn't touching it, but close enough to get most of the heat.

 

[vk2amv]

NOT EVEN TOUCHING IT!!!!!! HOLY HELL!!!!!! Danm the CPU must have been close to undergoing nuclear fission at that temp. It must have been at least red hot at that. Well shows how reliable AMD cpu`s are when it could stand that. I salute you buddy. (now why the hell did I put that?)
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[monkeyspank]

Thats cool (so to speak). thought about running it without the fan? it would be nice + quiet at least?

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[HolyShiznit]

<font color=blue>Booted up into bios to see what the temperture was.. 198F !!!!! HOLY SH(@!*@ I THOUGHT, I turned it off, noticed the fan of the heatsink had died. </font color=blue>

Haha. A great way to stay warm in winter.

 

[Champion_Tufshop]

My tbird 1ghz has gone beyond 80C (176F) regularly and survived for ~5months on the retail heatsink it came with. The fan was spinning too. Max die temp is i think 85-90C, and they are not kidding 😉. And this is wiht a SOCKET thermsistor, like its stuck to the motherboard, not even bent up to the back of the core....so the air around the cpu was 80C+, imagine the actual cpu :O

 

[vk2amv]

You reminded me of someone who had a Thunderbird 1.3gig that overheated someday for no apparrent reason. It was his sons computer and he was using it and it stunk but the kid didnt think anything of it. So he kept using it and after a while his father walked into the room and smelt the burning CPU. He wasnt sure it was that because the HSF wasnt overly warm so he checked the CPU temp. Well he quickly turned it off after seeing the temp was at around 110 degrees C. . He took the heat sink off and really saw scorch marks on the top of the die from the heat. Anyway he cleaned up the bottem of the heat sink repasted it and put it back together and booted it up fine. To this day it still works. BUT....It will only work at 1gig. Try and run it above 1gig and it wil not run stable. Hows that for somthing interestering? I myself would have thought it would kil it completly not make it so it wouldnt run above 1gig. Any ides why it did that? And no it was not damage to the motherboard as the CPU did the same in another machine.
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[lhgpoobaa]

Maybe it fried a bit of the cache or something?
Who knows... at least it still works.



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[lhgpoobaa]

Also, somewhere in the bios there should be an option to set the system shutoff temp.

Its a good idea to have that enabled... save the system incase of fan stoppage.

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[Crashman]

Remember Cyrix MII processors? I forgot to plug the fan in on a system I was messing with (while waiting for a REAL processor, AMD K6-2) to come in. It got so hot it melted/burned the back of the fan! Now you know what kind of heat resistant stuff those fans are made of!

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[svol]

Uhm Crashman, why are you bumping up old threads?

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on 😱

 

[Crashman]

Ah, just catching up on what's been happening in here, after all, they aren't THAT old! Last year was 2 weeks ago!

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[svol]

Yes, but some are more then 4 weeks old.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on 😱

 

[Crashman]

Ah, but as I apoligize just now, I'm still bumping up this old thread!

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[svol]

Doesn't matter... the thread is already sidetracked. 😎

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on 😱