'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real Computer

Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by slededit on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:53PM (#16711408)

But back in the P4 days man was it easy to melt your expensive processor. They didn't have fancy things like thermal shutdown then either.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by wtallis on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:19PM (#16711627)

Thermal shutdown was added fairly early in the P4 days. I recall a Tom's Hardware video showing removing the heatsink from a P4 while it was running Quake 3 and the framerate tanking but no crash, while the Athlon (XP?) next to it went up in smoke when the heatsink was removed.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by jotm on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:41PM (#16711836)

That was for AMDs, and I believe by the time of Pentium 4, even Athlons had thermal safeties. I remember quick testing (see if it powers on) Pentium 3s, Celerons and P4s without the heatsink - they even managed to boot Windows before shutting down lol. Same for GPUs.

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Re:'PC Building Simulator' Is More Fun Than Building a Real ... by slededit on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:47PM (#16711888)

I managed to melt one by incorrectly applying a heatsink. Years later we did some "experiments" on an old P4 to test the cooling capabilities of scotch. It's not effective FYI.

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