Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:03:57 09/30/03
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On September 30, 2003 at 14:56:34, Dan Andersson wrote: > It's a strangely persistent FUD that the Athlons run hot. The P4 is the space >heater CPU of renown. > It even got so far that a large group of P4 users banded together and tried to >lobby chipset makers to artificially lower the temperature readings for their >CPUs by substracting 10C from the diode readings. > Strange world, strange people. > >MvH Dan Andersson As the originator of this thread, let me say that it was NOT my intention to blame the Athlon. It's the other stuff in there (4 hard drives, etc.) that's causing the heat, I think. If I were buying a PC today, I'd almost certainly go AMD again.
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