Well, since it's touching the bare core, there's the slight chance more that the fan might short and burn your CPU, but not really completing a circuit with your CPU. Unless you have one of those fancy, don'tactuallyexistbecausetheywouldn'twork, bare-silicon CPUs. Heatsink's still a nice, fancy resistor both cases, and it'll still fry everything.
How would the fan short and burn the cpu? How would the heatsink act as a resistor? What is the source and drain? CPUs are completely sealed off even in laptops. The only possible power source is the motherboard.
It could...
I don't pretend to know how, it's just the ridiculous example I've been given. There's probably a more... "good" reason why the electrical conductivity could kill your CPU, but hell, I haven't googled shit like this in my life and I'm not about to start. but I have no idea what it could be.
kinkinkijkin Wrote:I don't pretend to know how
Well ok then. That pretty much sums everything up.
If you can't explain how it could happen how can you be so sure that it could happen?
For the record I'm not saying that silver based compound isn't dangerous. It is. But that's not the same thing as stating that the heatsink will act as a resistor or that the fan will short. That just doesn't make sense to me.
If you were using it figuratively then why keep suggesting that it would happen? Why not just say that when I asked what you meant?
Because I have little enough electrical knowledge and experience with laptops to realise that it wasn't possible?
Then that just goes back to this:
NaturalViolence Wrote:If you can't explain how it could happen how can you be so sure that it could happen?
Basically, why argue against me if you don't actually know?
Because, deep down, I knew that there was a possibility that I was right.
I am completely ok with admitting you're right about something like this if and only if you can either explain how it would be possible or quote a source that does. Please come prepared to do this anytime you make such a statement. Otherwise you have no reason to be so convinced that it's true. If you are using something figuratively/metaphorically then when I ask to explain just say that and there will be no need to continue the dialog. If you get caught off guard just google it to verify. The worst thing that can happen is you find out you're wrong and learn something new. And who knows even if it was just a guess you might end up being right and coming up with evidence in the process to confirm your idea.