Face palm - CPU without a heatsink

[Bluecube]

I ran an i3 using a Thors Hammer passive heatsink. It got a bit warm but nothing to be concerned about. One I got an i5 the temps started going over 100 so I had to move to water cooling. The point is that passive cooling with the right CPU is entirely possible. Without the heatsink entirely is another matter though I look forward to seeing Bonebreakers results

[Bonebreaker777]

I am using Thor's Hammer on a i5 plus 3 x case FANs on the lowest settings and even under long term load the temps don't crawl over 60 degrees.

EDIT: looks like I been presented with a challenge

[Bluecube]

Gerronwivit!

[DanceswithUnix]

The IHS on that thing must dissipate a ridiculous amount of heat, or your room must've been ridiculously cold! I once made that mistake with an old Duron and it died pretty much instantly. Although I guess an IHS has a much greater thermal capacity than a tiny slice of silicon and while it's a pretty inefficient heatsink, it's still a heatsink of sorts.

The Duron was protected by a temperature sensor on the motherboard touching the underside of the CPU, so good enough to detect fan fail but nothing else.

And to be fair, removing a heat sink during normal operation is an unlikely scenario. In real life, the most likely failure is the fan, and the rate of temperature increase would be much slower.

At the time of that video people were putting heatsinks on their boards that were too heavy for the lugs, and you just know when the lugs are going to decide to fail A 1kg lump of copper dropping onto your graphics card doesn't seem to do it much good either.

[Bonebreaker777]

I remember them!

Concentrated copper blocks with copper fins, surprisingly heavy and not that much better that copper-aluminium hybrids.

My good old Abit MoBo had a heat sensor too far from the CPU (touching the MoBo instead) and for a while I had amazing temperatures but yet I had to regularly open up the case to cool down

[Grassy]

Should be fine, most cpus have protection features