Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 22:56:50 03/02/03
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On March 02, 2003 at 14:52:58, Jay-R Delacruz wrote: >On March 02, 2003 at 07:17:17, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>On March 01, 2003 at 19:52:06, Jay-R Delacruz wrote: >> >>>Thanks for the input, it was a big help. Now I am considering Athlons but they >>>are prone to overheating even with adequate heatsinks/cpu cooling fan. >> >>No, that's not the case. Athlons overheat wiht inadequate heatsinks, but not >>with adequates. I have a Athlon XP 1600+ and overclocked it from 1.4 Ghz to 1.6 >>Ghz and have no problems using a good 20 dollar-heatsink/fan. The newer Athlons >>are even cooler (Thoroughbred-B). > >I admit my mistake, I should have said "inadequate" instead of "adequate". By >adequate I mean using the heatsink that comes with the cpu, if ever there is >one. My experience with Pentium cpu's is they come with their own heatsink/fan >right out of the box. I don't know about Athlon just rumors from my friends who >has built one. By the way, my interest is shifting towards dual Athlons so I >could try those Deep versions of Fritz, Junior, Shredder. If you buy OEM AMD CPUs, you get 1 year warranty and no heatsink. The retail "boxed" versions cost about $15 more and include 3 years warranty + heatsink & fan. The heatsinks that come with boxed chips are adaquate, but the thermal tape on the bottom is not. Removing this material and using Arctic Silver III instead made a difference of 27 C on dual-processor machines at work. -Matt
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