Comment by throwaway48476
1 year ago
To be fair I've accidentally run a CPU without a heatsink and it did a thermal shut down while testing a BIOS issue. It's a useful feature.
1 year ago
To be fair I've accidentally run a CPU without a heatsink and it did a thermal shut down while testing a BIOS issue. It's a useful feature.
That was fairly standard startup behaviour across all makers. The comment you're replying to talks about the heatsink suddenly falling off - a very specific testcase seemingly chosen to make a company look bad.