[TriLUG] AMD and reliability

[Brian Henning]

It was a Tom's Hardware article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20010917/index.html

Skip ahead to the fifth page for the video.

~B

Barry Gaskins wrote:
>    I read an article a few years back where they removed the heatsink
> and cooling fan from an intel processor and an AMD processor and then
> ran the computers until it overheated.  Of course both of them
> overheated pretty quickly but the intel processor had some type of
> thermal sensor that shut down the chip before any permanent damage was
> done but the AMD processor lacked anything like that so it self
> destructed.
>    That was a few years back so AMD may have added such protection in
> the latest chips.  I tend to agree though that AMD is currently a
> better value.  You can buy a lot of heatsinks and cooling fans to be
> sure you don't overheat for the difference in the price of comporable
> chips.
> 
>    - Barry Gaskins
> 
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