how long to fry amd xp 1800

[Guest]

how long would it take an amd xp 1800 to fry if you ran it at the standard voltage WITHOUT any fan or heatsink?ALL YOU EXPERTS PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR OPINIONS.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by chooky on 01/20/02 11:14 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[phsstpok]

Try it and let us know how long it takes.

My guess - 10 to 30 seconds.

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[LastStop]

Tom actually made a video of how long it takes to fry an AMD chip compared to what I recall a PIII and a P4. Intels survived but both AMD chips fried within seconds. Search the site, I'm sure they still have that video

 

[HonestJhon]

i would say with no heatsink, it is pretty instantaneous.
the next gen of processors is supposed to generate more heat than the surface of the sun, in respect to size...
in the thg video, within a second or two after removing the heatsink, there was smoke on that sucker.
it is pretty bad.
p4's dont fry tho, they keep a constant temp by slowing their clock speed, until they hit a safe temp, and when the heat is being dissipated again, the speed goes back up.
too there isnt some protection like that on athlons.
there is supposed to be on the xp's, but what motherboard supports that fast enough to save the system?
because in the time it would take you to react to the failure, recognize it as a frying processor, and then hit the power, or pull the plug, the processor would probably have started to melt the board.
were talking 360°C or something like that on the core of the processor without any heatsink...


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