What would happen if...?

Jango · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:18

What would happen if you took away all of the cooling devices in a decent rig then played Crysis on highest settings? (If it ever made it that far)

Ross1234 · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:19

Jango said:
What would happen if you took away all of the cooling devices in a decent rig then played Crysis on highest settings? (If it ever made it that far)

It wouldnt even start up.

Mr-White · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:20

Ross1234 said:
It wouldnt even start up.

Shhh.. there's no proof of that, until he tries it and posts the pics

MW

Jango · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:22

Ross1234 said:
It wouldnt even start up.

Ok then, what if when you were right in the middle of playing Crysis on highest, you magically ripped all of the cooling devices out of the rig?

Ross1234 · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:23

Jango said:
Ok then, what if when you were right in the middle of playing Crysis on highest, then all of the cooling devices magically disappeared?

Your pc would turn off to prevent damage, or catch fire if that didnt happen fast enough.

Didaco · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:23

ill answer you if you can find a way to make them dissapear magically

psychas · 8 Nov 2009 at 18:24

its easily possible if u leave fan on gpu. for cpu you can have big good massive heat sink without a fan

edit: there is 5750 passive card so its possible

SlyReaper · 8 Nov 2009 at 19:33

By cooling devices, I think he means the whole heatsink, not just the fan. It wouldn't even POST.

Ducky Spud · 8 Nov 2009 at 20:21

Yea, most systems these days have thermal protection/shutdown. If the CPU or whatever gets to a particularly hight temp the PC will just turn itself off to prevent damage. As others have said, this would probably be before it even boots if you removed the entire heatsink and such.

Not really any exciting "blow up" answer lol.

marc512 · 8 Nov 2009 at 20:28

Well, once my exhaust fan wasnt working at full speed ( had error on startup about exhaust fan ) i couldnt be bothered switching off and on to fix, i just pulled it out my mobo then the pc just shut off. I wouldnt be surprised if you magically made the CPU cooler dissapear the pc would shut off.

David-Stephens · 9 Nov 2009 at 14:23

Thermal protection video has been linked here a few times, go on you tube shows what happens. They have Heatsinks on CPUs whilst running a game that are not screwed on and just pick them up, some chips BURN

Mr-White · 14 Nov 2009 at 11:07

Old hardware would just blow up but these days they have thermal shutdown to prevent damages to the hardware.

MW

Didaco · 14 Nov 2009 at 12:09

cool i wanna do that to my friends annoying old P4