Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 23:51:00 04/26/02
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On April 26, 2002 at 23:41:40, Chris Kantack wrote: > >I agree with Timothy. Plus consider this: A Pentium 4 is much safer than an >Athlon! If your CPU fan fails on a P4, the P4 will automatically slow down to a >safe operating temperature. An Athlon CPU on the other hand will just fry its >brains out. Possibly starting the motherboard on fire. Not true. If the fan stops on an Athlon, it will not fry. Tom's showed that the CPU will die if the heatsink is ripped off the motherboard. This is a very unlikely event, a properly seated heatsink cannot fall off. Martin. > >Check out: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html > >for more info. > >Chris Kantack >http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm
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