One company I purchase from has the right idea. Portatech sends out a flier with all their cpu's. It shows a good cpu and a burned CPU. It gives exacting instructions on how to apply the heat sink grease, the heat sink, and states that no cpu's looking like the burned picture will be accepted as returns. You accept the agreement when you open the sealed cpu, which was tested before it left the warehouse. It's sad that such steps are necessary, but I think they've found a good way to deal with it.
The point being, It's only a loss to those sellers that will not adapt.
Toms Hardware did a test where the heat sink was removed from 4 kinds of processors while they where in heavy use. The P4 stepped down the speed until it managed a safe temp. The P3 halted and the two types of Athlons incinerated. (It hit 698 degrees almost instantly once the heat sink was removed.)
Maybe the P4 is worth the extra cash.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index. html
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One company I purchase from has the right idea. Portatech sends out a flier with all their cpu's. It shows a good cpu and a burned CPU. It gives exacting instructions on how to apply the heat sink grease, the heat sink, and states that no cpu's looking like the burned picture will be accepted as returns. You accept the agreement when you open the sealed cpu, which was tested before it left the warehouse.
It's sad that such steps are necessary, but I think they've found a good way to deal with it.
The point being, It's only a loss to those sellers that will not adapt.
Does this mean a Movie, or Spin off?
Toms Hardware did a test where the heat sink was removed from 4 kinds of processors while they where in heavy use. The P4 stepped down the speed until it managed a safe temp. The P3 halted and the two types of Athlons incinerated. (It hit 698 degrees almost instantly once the heat sink was removed.) Maybe the P4 is worth the extra cash. http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index. html