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Subject: Re: Athlon XP series hardware question, plus related question

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 14:08:08 04/22/02

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On April 22, 2002 at 16:34:33, john rice wrote:

>"the 2400 will be even more susceptible to fire". LOL, I have never heard of an
>AMD processor causing a fire. If that was the case, there would be major recalls
>of AMD processor based computer systems. Thousands of lawsuits for wrongful
>death, destruction of property and who know's what else. AMD would go under in a
>matter of months.


I have heard of them *catching* fire but not of them causing fires that then
spread beyond the computer.

If you kill the CPU fan on a fully-loaded (running) fast Athlon, doesn't the CPU
flame out?




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