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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:46:39 GMT, sweet <sweet430@hotmail.com> wrote:

I have heard two bad things about AMD from 2 independent techs:
1) they run hot and if the cpu fan goes, then your cpu is fried
(E.g. my old PIII/450 fan went and the cpu kept running. I got a new
fan and all was back to normal.)

FWIW, I my Athlon 550 ran for months without any working fans on it.  If 
we're talking older chips like that, anyway.

New chips, today, are going to pretty much be in the same boat between 
Intel and AMD.  They *both* produce *a lot* of heat which requires a 
huge heatsink and a decent fan.  Both of them can run for a while with 
the fans disabled, but both are going to run in to some major problems.  
Intel chips will cut out in such a situation, while an AMD chip will 
rely on the BIOS to tell the OS to shut down when they hit a certain 
high temperature.

If the heatsink falls off either chip, however (and this does happen, 
BTW), any fast modern CPU is going to take about half a second to *bzzt* 
fry.

2) AMD was called by the second tech about a voltage on the board not
matching the specs. "Yeah? So that's the way it was made." came the
customer rep's reply.

That sounds like a crappy motherboard manufacturer.  Why was the tech 
contacting AMD about a motherboard?  AMD doesn't make those.

You'll run in to plenty of crappy Pentium 4 motherboards if you go 
looking, trust me.  :-)

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