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Not necessarily. As I said, I've had this happen before. On my motherboard, the shut-off isn't related to CPU temp, it's related to the fan RPMs. If the CPU fan doesn't ramp up its RPMs within a fraction of a second, the computer instantly shuts itself off. Remember that we're talking about an AthlonXP which will cook itself into brokenness if uncooled for 2-5 *seconds*. Now, granted, the fan doesn't invalidate the heat sink that it's sitting over, but killing the power based on fan RPMs instead of temperature makes sense in that case.
(I'm running a Soyo K7V Dragon+ (
http//www.soyousa.com/...
for what it's worth. A pretty solid mobo choice for the time I put this machine together.)