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AMD: No Grease For You!
bahamat writes "In a surprising turn of events, this article over at Xtreme Tek explains that the official stance from AMD is that you will void your warranty if you use any thermal grease or if you're not using the heatsink provided with your CPU. Sucks to be you if you buy a defective AMD CPU and put a Zalman on it for the first boot." AMD, the article says, doesn't want you to use anything "other than Shin Estu G 749."
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That's Basically.
Ba-si-cally.
Now write it out in full 20 times. And don't use copy/paste. I'll know.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
because with their thermal crap and the defauult fan, my proc ran over 130F
AMD doesn't guarantee you the ability to overclock the processor.
May we never see th
Alright. Calm down, I was kidding, y'know.
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
Shuttle makes garbage. I bought a Shuttle barebones system (an SS40G) back in September, with an AMD Athlon XP chip. One day after 3 months of use the system just crapped out and died for no apparent reason. No video signal, nothing. Fans and lights are on, but nobody is home. Thinking it might be the CPU, I got a replacement. Nope, that wasn't it.
So I got an RMA number from Shuttle and sent it to their RMA center. It came back with paperwork indicating they replaced the power supply (which didn't seem to be broken). I put the chip back in, and the system still didn't work. The guy on the phone blamed my CPU. "Your bad power supply must have blown out that CPU sir... and we always test them before we send them back. So if you send it in to us again we'll just send it right back to you."
To complete the required mental masturbation, I tried a new (third) AMD CPU today. Of course it didn't work. This thing is going back with a nasty note. I wouldn't recommend Shuttle at all.