CPU overheating can cause serious damage, leading to system crashes or permanent failure if not addressed promptly.
CPU overheating can cause serious damage, leading to system crashes or permanent failure if not addressed promptly.
Your mind really needs some kind of split-personality medicine. The main problem with air-cooled heatsinks, especially those using heatpipes, is a condition called dryout. When the heat gets way too intense for the heatsink to handle, the liquid inside the heatpipe can’t condense properly, which ruins its efficiency. This issue is mostly fixable unless something goes completely wrong. Just like the odds of being attacked by sharks are nearly zero.