do processors NEED fans or heatsinks or w/e?

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#1 kbubba92
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do processors absolutly have to have cooling fans or heatsinks?or can u do fine w.o it
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#2 Squeek37
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Only if you want them to function.
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#4 kbubba92
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so u do have to have them?
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#5 Squeek37
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Yes, yes you do need them.

What are you doing (or attempting to do) by the way?  These questions can be answered by a simple search.

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#6 Striker3344
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well,, yeah they need obviously. unless u wanna kill a cpu!!
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#7 muppet1010
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umm no cpu's need fans, and they with out a doubt need heatsinks aswel. Out of interest what do you have in mind?????
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#8 9mmSpliff
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well....they ship with fans and heatsinks...soo................, what do you think?
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#9 Makari
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they don't need them in the sense that they can boot up and start working without them. but current ones will just overheat and shut down within 10-20 seconds to prevent themselves burning up from the heat. sorta like a car. it doesn't need tires to run and move around, it just won't make it very far without them.
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#10 drucom
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[QUOTE="Makari"]they don't need them in the sense that they can boot up and start working without them. but current ones will just overheat and shut down within 10-20 seconds to prevent themselves burning up from the heat. sorta like a car. it doesn't need tires to run and move around, it just won't make it very far without them.

I'll just let the completely illogic statement speak for itself... A CPU will simply overheat without a heatsink/fans.
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#11 Makari
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[QUOTE="drucom"][QUOTE="Makari"]they don't need them in the sense that they can boot up and start working without them. but current ones will just overheat and shut down within 10-20 seconds to prevent themselves burning up from the heat. sorta like a car. it doesn't need tires to run and move around, it just won't make it very far without them.

I'll just let the completely illogic statement speak for itself... A CPU will simply overheat without a heatsink/fans.

unless it's one designed to run without. ;) like VIA chips IIRC, or maybe they just had small passive heatsinks. i just like being proper and accurate when i say something, i guess. a processor doesn't always need one, but the desktop CPU's that we're using right now generally do.
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#12 GRiMeY
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Yes, you need them. And no, the CPU will not run fine without it. The CPU needs something to transfer it's heat out of it. Leaving it in open space has no transfer, so the CPU will run hot quick. The heatsink absorbs the heat, while the fan cools and blows the heat away from the heatsink.
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#13 yoyo462001
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lol i dont you lot understand what happends when you dont have a fan and heatsink. i saw it on some video on youtube it runs at over 1K C and starts to burn up, ill try get the video now.