I posted this as a reply to another thread, but I think that it's educational.
This experiment was done to determine the effects of heatsink removal, be it accidential or intentional.
You be the judge.
Click this and download the movie.
http://www12.tomshardware.com/images...PU_Cooling.zip LINK FIXED
While it's downloading go to this site.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20010917/index.html
-SF