What amazes me is that he says his system has been up for a couple of days this way. If my reckoning is correct, he's running an Athlon XP chip which is known to be able to run right up to the point where it bakes into silicon toast. I don't know how his system hasn't shut down yet. I'd like for him to shut it off and take a look (and a pic) of his processor in all of its toasty goodness just as a lesson for those people that think there is a natural cooling mechanism in their WC setup. Either that or the webcam idea: that way we can all holler "WE TOLD YOU SO!" in unison when his comp does the reboot of death and refuses to post. A sad end to the experiment, but my would it be satisfying. His WC system is serving as a really bad heat sink ... it would be interesting to see how long it would go before it shut down for good.
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