Pentium V. AMD reliability video.

[Tomo Motorsport]

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14330

I think I'll be going with Pentiums from now on.

 

[bone]

repost

http://forum.finalgear.com/viewtopic.php?t=6745

 

[Silverstar]

Well..I will stick to AMD..since I'm not stupid enough to pull my heatsink and cooler off.

 

[Kip_6666]

Too old to be relevent anymore. P3's, AMD Athlon classics? welcome back to 5 years ago.

 

[chaos386]

Ah yes, the old Tom's Hardware video, where the Palomino core is the "new" Athlon.

That video is really, really old. Since then, AMD has come out with the Thoroughbred A & B, Barton, Clawhammer (K8 series 64bit), Winchester, and now Venice and San Diego. Believing that video today is like refusing to buy the new Golf because you saw a video of an old VW Bug in a crash.

 

[mrkrazzy]

The cpu frying is impossible anyways if thermal shutdown is turned on

 

[Shawn]

So what's the message here? Don't take off your HSF while you're computer is running? Gee, thanks for the heads up, because I was planning on doing that just right now...

Got an AMD 64 3500+ and haven't had any issues with it... it just used to shutdown my computer when I installed a whole bunch of stuff in my case without extra cooling and an extra exhaust fan took care of that.

I think Pentiums are the ones with problems now... those Prescotts make a hell of a lot of heat.

P.S. Greatest music ever since Bach.

 

[stapler123]

I'm pretty shure the amd 64 bit cores actually have protection against frying. I saw a newer test somewhere, and the intells actually failed it (non dual core chips if i remember right).

That being said.. my p4 is overclocked and i'm not really sweating bullets.

 

[hajj]

All the protection came after this video was published in 2000, so it does not say anything about "modern" AMD cpu's.
But I switched to Intel after this video, so I guess it had some impact

 

[ranger_dood]

Haha... I didn't know anyone would still use that video as reference. That's like saying "I'm not going to drive a chevy because of the corvair"

 

[Renesis]

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