Just saw a VERY interesting Athlon vs. Pentium III/IV Video

#1 isochar

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Posted 09 October 2001 - 08:15 AM

Old news, but it's still SMOKIN. (Pun intended :D)

#2 FadedTimes

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Posted 09 October 2001 - 08:24 AM

I have never fried an Intel CPU.
I ran even an over clocked celeron 333a w/o a fan or heat sink for hours, because I couldnt find one that fit. Installed windows 98, downloaded updated BIOS to reconize my P3 cpu heh. I let it run for awhile, even ran benchmarks, I didn't have any temp gauges or anything, but the cpu was hot.

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Posted 09 October 2001 - 02:45 PM

Yeah i had a friend whos cpu fan stopped on a p3 (slot) and it just kept crashing all the time, i was amazed that it worked at all after about 4 months being run like this 8)

Slapped a new HS/Fan on it and it worked as good as new, i suppose intel have the 1 up on amd in this department

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Posted 09 October 2001 - 04:20 PM

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i suppose intel have the 1 up on amd in this department

I agree.. AMD needs to work on that.

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Posted 09 October 2001 - 10:52 PM

Tom did what I don't have the guts to do, and would become ill if I did. When you have the money, fried CPU's aren't a big deal.
As far as the CPU itself, Intel has better heat management and a tougher die--you don't hear horror stories en masse about people cracking their P3. And to make it even more idiot-proof, the IHS on the P4 and Tualatin P3 and Celeron make it nearly impossible to accidentally bust a die.
With the P4 retention mechanism, the heatsink isn't coming off accidentally either.