[rescue] On the topic of heat shutdown in Intel CPUs...

[Jeremy Nielson]

Yeah, the article talks about that, but that the thermocoupler can't handle
the rapid heat change that comes when you totally remove your heatsink/fan,
and the chip burns out anyways.


----- Original Message -----
From: Reagen B. Ward <ward at zilla.nu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] On the topic of heat shutdown in Intel CPUs...


> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:53:32AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Fine, and how will you know when your fan dies? ;^)
> >
> > I think they should include technology like Intel, and power-down
*before*
> > complete physical failure...
>
> My TBird will power down automatically if one of the following conditions
> is met:
>
> 1.  CPU Fan appears to have failed
> 2.  CPU gets too hot
> 3.  Ambient temp gets too high
>
> Just a cheap Gigabyte mboard.
>
> Reagen
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