RE: Overheating CPUs...

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Most newer motherboards which have hardware monitoring features built in
will allow you set a threshold temperature in the PC BIOS, which will turn
the PC off of the CPU overheats.

Paul G.





>From: "Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Overheating CPUs...
>Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:59:33 +0100
>
>This is all a bit worrying when leaving machines on 24x7 from a safety
>aspect ie likelyhood of fire if a fan falls off a processor. I have
several
>machines left on 24x7 in my office at home and now feel slightly
nervous.
>
>Don
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 10 October 2001 09:25
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Overheating CPUs...
>
>
>Thats really a rather narrow view Mark, and reflects AMD as a company
>before
>a lot of the movements in the Semi industry. When IBM stopped fabbing
x86
>procesor cores, a lot of their guys moved to AMD for instance, and I
>understand a couple of teams shifted from Nat Semi to AMD also..
>
>In particular, AMD's Dresden fab (the one that makes the AXIA-Y series
>Athlon procs) is considered the leading facility in the world, and
produces
>yields in the high 80% range, as opposed to Intel's Irish fab, which I
>understand was managing somewhere around 50%-60%
>
>There was extensive coverage of the fact that Intel had to abandon
their
>policy of underrating CPUs, simply because they were unable to produce
the
>higher rated ( >1GHz ) procs at an economic yield level.
>
>Whether you want to just run win2K as a desktop, or play games (the
>ultimate
>system load) Thunderbird Athlon procs can the absolute pants off of
Pentium
>III or 4 dies at the same clock.
>
>As for reliability in normal use? (ie, not a failure condition) I have
>noticed no difference....
>
>Not to mention that if it fails, a top line 1.4GH Athlon T-Bird is
selling
>now for £75 rather than £399 for the 2.0 Ghz P4 (with equivelant
>performance
>in 3D Mark 2001)
>
>Ian.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:53 AM
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Overheating CPUs...
>
>
> > 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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