   Holy Crud!
Crazy!A AMD Duron oc'd to 3.8GHz.  He removes the fan and... Well, you'll see...   
  By the way, it's a fake. The guy uses fireworks or gunpowder or something explosive to make it shoot out of the socket like that.That's right, there's nothing explosive inside of your computer. Nothing to see here, please move along.   ;  wowHow do you know its false?  It seems unlikely, but if it got hot enough and created enough gas to get compression, maybe it could be possible.   ;  I don't 'know' that it's fake, but it looks really fake. The heatsink and fan aren't attached to the processor or running; they are just set on top of it. It goes off with a ping sound and just looks really fake. (Sorry I can't explain it better.)   ;  A CPU core is always located at the very top of the die. Since the core is the only part that really heats up, that means the only major thermal expansion is emanating from the top of the die. So even if the core contained a significant amount of flammable material (it doesn't) and managed to heat itself so suddenly and unexpectedly that it didn't smoulder it all off first (it couldn't), the CPU would be blown downwards. Furthermore, notice that afterwards the core is completely intact. That wouldn't be the case if the explosion came from it.   ;Here's the video you want:http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/09/17/hot_spot/page6.htmlIt was entertaining though.   ;  "Wow, look at the extreme overclocking""It is extreme""Yes, it is incredible!""Extreme?""Yes, too extreme""Yes, too much extreme. Too too much"Wow, those boys are hardcore! Quote:From xtremepccentral.comWell i've seen the videos before, and have studied them carefully.The hole was deffinatly there before it blew watching it as it pops off. Besides the smoke originating from under the table on the pentium 4. The pressure created to pop the cpu out of the socket or break the cpu, I guess could be considered to be an explosion, but the cpu the stregnth of the cpu popping out of the socket would require much less energy and would have happened first. Not both at the same time unless it somehow just sets of an instant explosion enough to create the force for both. Otherwise the weakest side area would give way under pressure first. It seems like the sockets were also prepped.It could be possible, but the obvious way the guy acted as if he knew something(which yes he knew as that's what they set out to do, he just acted goofy about it, and didn't go into more depth and show more of what tehy were doing) and that they purposely didn't have the fan going, seemed to make me think that it wasn't very realistic. It would create a lot of change in tempature which could help increase the pressure build up. Unless this somehow created a better pressure seal and heating the pins from the fan not cooling at causing the entire cpu to be very hot helps in the mixture of things :p;  Of course the biggest dead give away that it is a fake, is that he picks up the cpu with his bare hand.   