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To be fair I've accidentally run a CPU without a heatsink and it did a thermal shut down while testing a BIOS issue. It's a useful feature.


That was fairly standard startup behaviour across all makers. The comment you're replying to talks about the heatsink suddenly falling off - a very specific testcase seemingly chosen to make a company look bad.




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