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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. Of course by cyngon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of course AMD is just trying to make their product look good.

    1. Re:Of course by fredrik70 · · Score: 0, Redundant

      the trend that noone is trying to make their product look good???

      *grin*

      /fred

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  2. The fact is by Redundant+Spork · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can run Quake 3 for 9 minutes on an AMD without a heatsink. AMD was probably behind that test. After all, it is in there best interest to prove their product's reliaility.

  3. Third party verification by case_igl · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Tom's Hardware is generally known for the accurate reporting and trying to keep the playing field level in tests.

    This one should be pretty easy to test...Someone just needs to have the resources to risk frying a few dozen processors.

    I was a little surprised when I read the results on Tom's Hardware...I would have expected they could see this could be a major issue for AMD and would have run even more tests to make sure their results were accurate and not a bad batch or something like that.

    Hate to see Tom's take a credibility hit on this one, so it will be interesting to see how this one unfolds!

  4. Tom's Video by HeroicAutobot · · Score: 2, Redundant

    The video on Tom's Hardware Guide can be found here.

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  5. Ahem. ATTENTION! by centron · · Score: 2, Redundant

    If you look at both videos, the thing to notice is that Tom's tests were done using VIA chipsets, whereas AMD's tests were done with AMD chipsets. There is NO discrepency here. VIA's chipset is to blame because it doesn't shut down the system!

    Go back and watch again. I think this makes far more sense. AMD would not publish a video that was outright forged, they would be silent on the matter. Tom would not gain anything by publishing misleading data.

    THE PROBLEM IS THE DIFFERENT CHIPSETS USED.

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