AMD’s Ryzen 3 4300U APU Can Run Crysis Without a Cooler

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Running a CPU without a cooling solution typically ends in shutdown (or something considerably worse), but one enthusiast (via Guru3D) has discovered that AMD’s new Ryzen 3 4300U APU is sophisticated enough to chug along without fan or water block support. Fritzchens Fritz, of CPU/GPU die-shot fame, managed to get the naked processor through Cinebench R15, 3DMark TimeSpy, and Crysis benchmarks without casualty.









Technically, Fritz cheated a bit by limiting the 4300U’s thermal limit to 90-degrees Celsius with kbsk1’s new tuning tool, which allows users to alter the power...

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