Overclocking Damages CPU?

[PianoPlayer88Key]

6 hours ago, Droidbot said:

I still remember the video where someone put a 9590 on a 970 board and the VRMs caught fire

I looked that up on youtube  One of the suggested videos (although not the 2nd time I loaded the page, but I remember it from a while back) was

 

I hope the AMD Ryzen CPUs don't do that when the cooler is removed

 

Apparently Intel can run Prime95 without the CPU cooler, without shutting down or blowing up ...

 

[Droidbot]

11 hours ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

I looked that up on youtube  One of the suggested videos (although not the 2nd time I loaded the page, but I remember it from a while back) was

 

I hope the AMD Ryzen CPUs don't do that when the cooler is removed

 

Apparently Intel can run Prime95 without the CPU cooler, without shutting down or blowing up ...

 

holy shit that poor i3

 

they can, but they generally decrease the performance a lot to try and keep thermals under control.. I'd say it'd hit TJMAX (95C) and then shut down after around 10 minutes