Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-111.93.119.114-20140103090129/@comment-6003396-20140108094755

It's a very bad idea to have no heat sink on the CPU at all, I believe modern ones require it without severe damage within minutes. At least attach the stock heat sink that comes with the intel (all of them do, as far as I know). It might work just fine. Do a benchmark test with something like Prime95 (a nice one that is also free) and see how it goes with the one out of the box, then decide.