Boooo on Coolermaster, Hooray for AMD

[flounder43]

I have an XP1600 (green, overclocked to about 1900) that I have had up for some time. I saw this cool looking Coolermaster HSFs with the squirrell cage type fan and got one to try it out. It seemed to work ok for 6 months or so, until today. Today, I got up and the puter was dead, main system fans on, but that was it. Looked into my window, and the damn cpu fan wasn't spinning! Who knows how long it was stopped...

Anyway, I shut it off at the psu and opened it up. I touched the metal on the heatsink, and it BURNED my finger! Ouch! I had to go to work, so I just left it, thinking the cpu was certainly fried.

Tonight, I got home and had a look. The cpu looked scortched and I didn't have much hope...but.... I put it back in, installed my old Volcano HSF, and guess what....It booted right up!!! The AMD lives!

Love the AMD's toughness. Not going to buy another Coolermaster, though.

 

[CircuitBreaker8]

Wow thats crazy!

 

[prankstar008]

WOW! did your mobo have over temp protect...maybe it shut it off at 90 degrees (borderline kill zone) and thats what schorched it and also what saved ur cpu?

 

[flounder43]

WOW! did your mobo have over temp protect...maybe it shut it off at 90 degrees (borderline kill zone) and thats what schorched it and also what saved ur cpu?

The mobo is a Gigabyte KT333 (GA- 7vrxp), it might have saved the cpu, but it didn't shut off completely, so I don't know...

Also, I seem to recall that it does have an alarm that goes off with high temps (sounds like a siren) but that didn't happen. Also, given the fact that the heatsink was so hot that it burned my finger, it makes me think that the cpu was still getting power when I discovered the problem. It surely was above the 90 degree limit!

I think the system just crashed and the cpu shut down enough to save itself.

 

[bored-sarcasm]

wow you are one lucky *******. yea, i'll only stick to thermaltake (sorry folks) and thermalright when it comes to cpu cooling. that is until i decide to move to water.

 

[flounder43]

wow you are one lucky *******. yea, i'll only stick to thermaltake (sorry folks) and thermalright when it comes to cpu cooling. that is until i decide to move to water.

Themaltake has never let me down!!! (again, sorry, folks!)