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How to treat your old CPU

Neal

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Not sure i anyones seen this before, I found it ammusing..


Neve expected a CPU to explode like it does!
 
its fake... they put a hole in the motherboard and a firework underneath it or something, in one of their videos you can even see the PC which is outputting to the monitor under the table.
 
I just said to the missuss when I took the heatsink off my 2000XP it just shut straight down and worked again, I've also done it with a 939 3000 it shut down as well, the thermal cut outs really do work.
 
ns400r said:
I haven't even clicked the Youtube link and I also bet it's the 'AMD blowing up video' that was faked a couple of years ago.
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Yeah it is. The sad thing is that it was clearly meant to be a joke. But people are all like "OMG thats so FAKE" and for some reason getting genuinely angered at it.


No.. really?
 
plasticmekon said:
Yeah it is. The sad thing is that it was clearly meant to be a joke. But people are all like "OMG thats so FAKE" and for some reason getting genuinely angered at it.


No.. really?
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Whenever I've seen a link to it, the poster seems to think it's real.
 
sammie377 said:
I just said to the missuss when I took the heatsink off my 2000XP it just shut straight down and worked again, I've also done it with a 939 3000 it shut down as well, the thermal cut outs really do work.
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With the original Athlon and early Athlon XP and Duron chips it wasn't there and/or didn't work. While they wouldn't explode, they would die in a poof of smoke. Later Socket A and all 64 chips are fine. :)
 
Yep I confirm that.

"I'll just check the bios settings a second, no need to fasten the HSF back on tightly"

"Hrm, blank screen"

:o:(


Seen that vid before, its fake. No smoke or anything with mine, the old Cyrix chips were durable, the hsf fell off mine so I used a table fan and it was ok


plasticmekon said:
Yeah it is. The sad thing is that it was clearly meant to be a joke. But people are all like "OMG thats so FAKE" and for some reason getting genuinely angered at it.
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dbmzk1 said:
With the original Athlon and early Athlon XP and Duron chips it wasn't there and/or didn't work. While they wouldn't explode, they would die in a poof of smoke. Later Socket A and all 64 chips are fine. :)
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Early XP had it, tried this with a very early 1500+ Pally and it shut off with no ill effect, its the boards that did'nt fully support it right in the beginning and hence they failed on them.
 
dbmzk1 said:
With the original Athlon and early Athlon XP and Duron chips it wasn't there and/or didn't work. While they wouldn't explode, they would die in a poof of smoke. Later Socket A and all 64 chips are fine. :)
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It didn't explode and it didn't smoke. It just went pop!
IIRC I forgot to put the HSF on.
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There's an amusing Tom's Hardware video where they take the HS off an old Athlon XP, it heats up to 370c or something and billows smoke everywhere.
 
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