It honestly never occurred to me to disassemble the laptop, remove the cooling from the CPU, and not only boot Windows but also run a series of benchmarks, including Crysis. But the Internet is vast, and someone else who documented this attempt came up with the idea. And guess what? That CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 4300U, survived the ordeal.

The Ryzen 3 4300U is one of AMD's latest laptop CPUs (technically an APU, graphics processing included), code-named "Renoir," that combines four cores based on AMD's latest generation Zen 2 architecture with five Radeon Vega GPU cores. Zen 2 is the same architecture as AMD's Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs.

Laptops powered by AMD's Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPUs are just beginning to hit retailers. We have already reviewed several, including Dell's G5 15 SE and Asus' TUF A15. In both cases we left the cooling solution installed.

YouTuber FritzchensFritz, a talented photographer who maintains a Flickr account full of photos of various silicones, had other plans for his laptop with a Ryzen 3 4300 built in. Let's take a look:

"This little test shows just how good AMD's new Ryzen Renoir APU's overheat protection is. The little tool 'Renoir Mobile Tuning' helps to set the original temperature limit to 90°C. The thermal resolution is 384x288. 120mm fan runs at 5V and produces low and constant airflow," explains FritzchensFritz.

The thermal imaging camera captures the heat emitted by the CPU while running various benchmarks, but surprisingly, very little red color is seen during the tests. Of course, a major reason for this is the throttling operation, which is designed to prevent chip damage.

Still, it is impressive to see a CPU without cooling running without (figuratively) catching fire in Crysis, 3DMark's Time Spy test, and Cinebench R15. Or, as one person said on Twitter, "This is bananas."

Thanks, Guru3D