Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 16:46:16 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 17:08:08, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? Not if just the fan dies. It will overheat and possibly ruin the processor, but it should not catch fire. But Tom's Hardware Guide has a video of a test they did with removing the heat sink, which could conceivably happen through rough handling by a parcel company, and the processor goes up in smoke in less than 2 seconds. They commented that even though they cut power immediately, it had already burned a portion of the motherboard. They felt there was a considerable danger of setting the motherboard on fire. It is unlikely to cause a housefire, since the unlucky person who turns it on after the rough shipment, will be there when the smoke starts coming out of the box, and should be able to handle it. I would verify that the heat sink is on after receiving an XP by mail order, just in case. Pentiums IIIs and 4s do not do this. The IIIs will hang but not be damaged. The 4s will throttle back clock speed and continue running at very low clock speeds, keeping the temp below 85 deegrees C. One small advantage for the Pentium... kp
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