>Just noticed the socket handle pops up right when the chip comes off...
>Potentially solves one critisism, and much harder to fake. The chip is
>easilly consuming 300watts of course, let alone peak energies.  What I
>still find suspicious, is where's the propulsive energy coming from?
>This isn't like a cap, where the elctrolite boils and builds up stored
>energy over a few seconds, I'd expect it to melt and crack, but I want
>one of you people to say that a destructive arc will vapourise enough
>material quick enough to get a decent thrust out of it before I belive
>this. :)

There may have been some electrolytics in the hole in the center of the
socket. If there was, and they blew, that could provide the force to cause
the CPU to fly up, and MAYBE the motherboard to get a hole in it.

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