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The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been...

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the interesting-take-on-things dept.

A reader writes "Not too long ago, Tom's Hardware posted a video of the grisly events that take place when the heatsink is removed on an AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz in an attempt to show that the chip has inadequate thermal protection unlike the Pentium 4. Apparently, this is not the case. This new video, which looks like was done by AMD, shows the system continuing to work when the heatsink is removed. Even 9 minutes of Quake3 without the fan operating wasn't enough to destroy the processor. So who is right? It's in AMD's best interest to show that their product doesn't disintigrate under extreme conditions. " Update: 10/30 14:11 GMT by H : Note that it was Terry 'quad3d' Wang that actually did the video - not AMDZone.

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  1. "The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been..." by Luminair · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do we speak english here at Slashdot anyore?

    I am not less perfect than Lor

    1. Re:"The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been..." by JanneM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Do we speak english here at Slashdot anyore?

      "anyore"?

      /Janne

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      Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
  2. just so you know by unformed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    the video is a .wmv file .... forget about playing it on linux

  3. Re:Athlon 1.4 by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    By the way, if you are looking for you right hand, I saw it in Budapest. No shit. Man, are they making a killing with it.

    --
    Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
  4. Re:Of course by abcdefg23562 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And Intel has never tried to make their products look good

    neither has Microsoft

    or Redhat I guess

    or IBM

    or Linksys

    or Pfizer

    Transmeta

    Sonic Foundry

    Pepsi

    Taco Bell

    anyone see a trend here?

  5. gcc 3.1 does not exist (yet) by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any poster who claims to present benchmarks based on gcc 3.1 is either lying or incompetent. GCC 3.0.2 is the current release. GCC 3.1 is scheduled for release on 15 Apr 2002.

  6. sink? by 11+platter+hard+driv · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When did the U.S.S. Heat sink?