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Originally posted by StigTC:
Whoa, if you have and AMD cpu with-out a fan, it will easily climb to hign and above the melting point of the cpu. A pentium processor however will automaticly brake to save itself. And for goods sake make sure you have a fan that works, otherwise your machine will run like shiite or not at all.
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One point - the chipset will brake the processor *if* its temperature monitoring is working (not a certainty) and *if* you happen to have a chipset that supports thermal failsafe. I think theres a BIOS setting that can have an effect as well. Not something you can depend on.
NiceWorg, make sure you get a good fan. AMDs run hot, Durons are bad for it, and coolers designed for an intel chip might not be good enough in the long run.
And 800Mhz chip isnt going to cook itself in a hurry though. If youd done this on a faster chip, say a 1.5Ghz, youd have generated enough heat to melt the motherboard beneath the chip, or so I hear.