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| Author: | DimSumGuy83 [ 29 Sep 2010 23:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Rest in peace... |
Today, a piece of computer hardware has gone to Heaven. My Corsair H50 low-cost liquid cooler has lost its life to a good fight. However, I'm relieved to know that my CPU was not damaged in the process and am in extreme relief that my automated shut-down sequence I enabled in the BIOS kicked in when my CPU hit 75 degrees Celcius. Took me a few guesses but I finally pinpointed it to the CPU cooler and luckily, I had my Cooler Master Hyper 212 as backup. So, I lost an $80 cooler but I saved a $200+ CPU. I can honestly say that I didn't lose much in the process. |
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| Author: | Teh_Bunny [ 30 Sep 2010 15:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rest in peace... |
i probably woulda shat my pants :\ |
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| Author: | serialp0rt [ 30 Sep 2010 16:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rest in peace... |
that's cool you did the fail safe like that. When I upgrade my computer next time I will go ahead and do that kind of stuff too. |
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| Author: | DimSumGuy83 [ 30 Sep 2010 17:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rest in peace... |
From what I understand, Intel CPUs have the fail safe built into the CPU so that way it underclocks itself to keep from overheating. The BIOS command that I enabled was just for added security (and I'm very thankful that the option was there.) I'm not sure with AMD CPUs but I wouldn't be surprised if AMD did have their CPUs equipped with the same fail-safe. On a better note, my air cooler is performing just as well (if not better or worse) as the liquid cooler. |
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