POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Busted : Re: Busted Server Time
7 Sep 2024 11:24:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Busted  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 19 May 2008 12:31:53
Message: <4831ab79@news.povray.org>
"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:4831a342$1@news.povray.org...
> [And more importantly, how in the name of God does a device which only
> has access to a few milliwatts manage to get warm enough to physically
> melt??]

Have you touched a CPU/graphics card that's been running 30 min+ recently?

A few years back, Tom's Hardware did a test on one of the early Athlon 1 GHz
chips. They ran it without heatsink or fan to see how hot it could get.
They managed to ignite the motherboard in less than an hour (iirc)


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