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4I see on Tech-Report that a new AMD heat video has been released, showing that AMD's newest processors can run without a heatsink for a while before failing, and can also start just fine again after the heatsink is reattached. Tom's Hardware had recently released a video showing a Pentium4 running fine for a while without a heatsink, while the Athlon started smoking almost instantly without one.
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This is the board/chipset that will make Athlon XP cook! (but not burn)
- They could've saved megabytes of file size by having a text file with the bulk of the text and/or by having subtitled text as opposed to cut-scene slideshows.
- WMV's compression scheme sucks; the file was 10 megs, but the zip file packed it down to 3 megs. I wonder if the DivX codec would've been more appropriate here; either that or there's a lot more leeway for improvement.
Otherwise, a good demonstration of AMD's ideal solution to the burnout problem. That green/red LED combo should be made standard equipment for a PC; it's good to know exactly why your computer's frozen. However, unplugging the fan was cheating; I want to see another demonstration with a pencil being thrust into the impeller to stop it.
"Many of you are sending in linkage to a video, that is very misleading, of an AMD CPU not burning up when the heatsink is removed. First off, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME as you will end up with a dead CPU if you own an Athlon or Duron. Currently, all of the retail boards sold here in the United States do not support the AthlonXP or Morgan Core Duron's internal temperature monitoring diode. So while yes, in theory, it certainly can work and will work with a multitude of boards one day, do not let these people pushing these videos lead you astray. You can and will burn up your AMD CPU if you try it at home."
It's followed by an e-mail from the guy who knew the guy who made the video, but it's such poor English, it hurts my eyes to even look at it, so I won't be posting it here.
Personally, I don't care too much... even if my heatsink does fall off, I'll just go buy another one and still pay less for the two than I would've paid for one Pentium IV. The Athlon XP rocks... too bad it doesn't work with my piece-of-shit ATI video card. *shrug*
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dunno...havent looked at it enough
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Not like anyone's gonna chande thier mind and buy Intel because of this anyway...
-J
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Some more info here: http://www.vanshardware.com/
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