RE: Overheating CPUs...

["Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

I see AMD are consistent in their ineptitude.

After the whole AMD 486 debacle (where they ran all chips full speed or
overclocked compared with Intel undercloking chips where they could not
guarantee performance and reliability) I have always been wary of AMD.
"You
get what you pay for" was never more true.

Since I get some upgrades "free" I was talked into an Athlon over
Intel a
year ago and have nothing good to say about the experience even on the
"ideal" motherboard for the Athlon (I won't go into detail since
I would be
here all night to do so). Finally external evidence to show my qualms
confirmed :)

One thing about high powered chips, when they go, they literally go with a
bang. A guy at work, the PSU fan and CPU fan failed simultaneously
ultimately resulting in chip meltdown. On replacement of seemingly
appropriate parts on the workbench, at next power up, every IC on the
motherboard blew together with the ICs on the IDE drives and Graphics card.
Quite a bang and there are still chip "chips" embedded in the
partition wall
of the old Net Admin room :)

Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 October 2001 00:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Overheating CPUs...



There's a great AVI on www.tomshardware.com showing what happens when the
heatsink fails (i.e. falls off) on a 2Ghz P4, a 1GHz PIII and a 1.4Ghz and
1.2Ghz "Palomino" Athalon...

....I hate to say it but the Intels were protected against the sudden
temperature rise and either clocked down massively or hung but survived ...
the Athalons however failed *BIG TIME* and smoked reaching 360deg C or
more!

It's the funniest 10Meg download you'll have seen in a while...

Phil



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