Author: Ray Banks
Date: 05:40:17 12/12/04
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AMDs heat issues dated back years ago to their Thunderbird processors. Today, an AMD64 or Opteron is the coolest high performance processor you can buy (notebook processors excepted) Now, Intel's Prescotts are the joke of the I.T. industry in terms of heat. They run so hot that unless they are VERY well cooled in a well designed case they have to throttle back to decrease the heat. I'd completely avoid Intel for chess work where the procesor will be pegged at 100% load continuously. The Centrino mobiles are the exception, these are a fantastic processor. In a business environment, airconditioning systems take away most of the Intel heat risks, but in a home environment, I'd avoid an Intel Prescott based processor at all costs.
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