[joshspankit]

> There are, you can override your fan speed from the OS. But that leads to issues with a control software crash potentially leaving your fans stuck in a low-speed state.

That’s why I didn’t talk about user software and was focusing more on mobo (since it knows the current state of all usage and is not os-dependent) or low-level OS hooks which can have battle-tested processes to make sure that the fans are not left uncontrolled. I appreciate you bringing up the point though, it’s vital to make sure the chips don’t fry.

> There's pretty much a 1:1 link between CPU load and CPU temperature

Yes agreed, but there’s a lag time between the two

[semi]

I don't think you can fry a modern chip, at least without really going out of your way to.

But even if you just forced all of your fans to run at 0% (or physically removed them) I would expect the CPU to trigger PROCHOT and throttle it's performance, hard crashing if it has to.