No CPU cooling

Jonyboy

Jonyboy

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It's well known that you should keep your procesor cool, but i was wondering if you could damage your procesor if you turned your computer on (no hard drive or optical drive connected) with no fan or heatsink to cool the procesor BUT for less than a few minutes and loaded the BIOS.

I was wondering this, because hoping to make a computer soon, i would want to check it would work when little had been added apart from the basics.

Thanks.
 
What does not having the drives connected have to do with this question? Unless you mean not allowing it to boot? If the computer turns on, the processor will put off heat. Even with a dead motherboard, a processor can still "work" and possibly overheat.

Today's processors shouldn't overheat with their thermal diodes and what not. However, it's still never safe to run a processor without the heatsync and fan. And the amount of time makes no difference. Back around the Athlon Thunderbird days(2002 or so) a 1.4GHz Athlon would burn up basically the instant it was powered up.
 
Well i was just thinking that it would only be running the BIOS (which i wouldn't whink would take up that much of the CPU power). But if it is that serious then ..... I guess it's a good thing i asked.

Thanks.
 
Jonyboy said:
Well i was just thinking that it would only be running the BIOS (which i wouldn't whink would take up that much of the CPU power). But if it is that serious then ..... I guess it's a good thing i asked.

Thanks.
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The CPU is working more in the BIOS then it does when Idle in Windows XP (due to the system idle process).
 
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