Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
To my knowledge very early AMD Athlon CPUs had no thermal protection and if you’d take off a cooler while it was running you’d see smoke after a while. There’s a very old video showing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39D4529FM4
I built a PC up and had issues trying to post. As I diagnosed the issue I took off the fan/heatsink. No idea why tbh. I powered it back on forgetting to reseat the heatsink. I could smell a burning smell and ripped out the power as quickly as I could. It was too late. I fried the CPU. It was a burnt purple colour underneath. Had to go buy another CPU. What a waste of money :(