[wellylug] cpu temperature reported incorrectly

[David Antliff]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Brent Wood wrote:
> Tom's Hardware did a cpu burnout test a year or two back, just before AMD
> introduced the thermal cutout in the Athlon cpu, & just after Intel did....
> might still be there to read.

Read... and watch! As part of that article they published a cool movie 
showing an Intel and an AMD system running Quake3. With the Intel P4, they 
removed the heatsink and you could see the game visibly slow down to a 
halt over a few seconds. Their infrared thermometer showed the CPU 
temperature increase initially and then flatten out.

They did the same thing with an Athlon - within a matter of seconds, the 
CPU was smoking, literally, and caused motherboard damage. The temperature 
rose over 300 degrees (C or F, can't remember).

Neat video - I might even still have it lying around somewhere...

-- 
David.