It was a Tom's Hardware article: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20010917/index.html
Skip ahead to the fifth page for the video. ~B Barry Gaskins wrote:
I read an article a few years back where they removed the heatsink and cooling fan from an intel processor and an AMD processor and then ran the computers until it overheated. Of course both of them overheated pretty quickly but the intel processor had some type of thermal sensor that shut down the chip before any permanent damage was done but the AMD processor lacked anything like that so it self destructed. That was a few years back so AMD may have added such protection in the latest chips. I tend to agree though that AMD is currently a better value. You can buy a lot of heatsinks and cooling fans to be sure you don't overheat for the difference in the price of comporable chips. - Barry Gaskins
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