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AMD: No Grease For You!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the silly-rules dept.

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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  1. Hmmm by LightningTH · · Score: 5, Funny

    Boycott AMD! Oh, wait, I'm already boycotting Intel for making high priced chips with high speeds that have poor performance.....CRAP!

    1. Re:Hmmm by hardave · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well then.
      Here:
      http://www.sun.com/processors/

      or

      http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/

  2. Perpective. by SN74S181 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have my folks here visiting right now from out of state. I decided to peek in and see what's cooking on Slashdot nonetheless.

    Now, if I were to go in the other room and tell my folks that people were ranting and raving on a website about no being allowed to use the heat sink grease of their choice on a computer processor..... Well, regular down to earth real people just wouldn't understand.

  3. Heatsink? by SecretAsianMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the big deal? Just take the heatsink off. I did, and there haven't been any pr%L:``

    --

    Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.

  4. Shhhhhh... by arhines · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...AMD planted this story to use /. brainpower to think of ways to prevent violations :) Next Intel will be posting about clock locking.