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**HAL9000** · 12-03-2005, 04:55 PM

I agree that the video is bogus... if you look at the end of it.. the core is still intact except for the corners. Tom's Hardware did testing of removing a heatsink and all it did was fry the CPU. There is nothing in a CPU that would actually case an explosion.

12-03-2005, 04:55 PM	#24
HAL9000 Red-eyed Moderator Staff Premium Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 17,575	I agree that the video is bogus... if you look at the end of it.. the core is still intact except for the corners. Tom's Hardware did testing of removing a heatsink and all it did was fry the CPU. There is nothing in a CPU that would actually case an explosion. __________________ -At Ford, quality is job #1, job #2 is making them explode. ~Norm MacDonald, SNL News -Switching to Glide..Balancing in my head..inside of me... taking the glide path instead.