The newer Athlons have the same feature as P4 - they shutdown. This is a feature of the processor integrated with the mbd - when temp goes over the top it shuts down the system. BTW - the engineering of the AMD heat sinks is crummy - you can put it in backwards by mistake and nuke the processor.
I still say buy Intel processors and Intel. The costs differential in a 2x SMP machine is immaterial relative to the cost of your time in support and systems integration - Intel is heads above AMD in that department. For data intensive stick with Intel mobos and for graphics intensive go for Giga-byte motherboards. Danny Lieberman OSI-Open Solutions Israel +972-8-970-1485(voice) +972-54-471114(Cell) www.opensolutions.co.il ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tal Achituv" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:47 PM Subject: AMD (was re: Dist question.) 1) I have to say that some of the biggest vendors in Israel are selling junk motherboards with their AMD servers, We have here a dual Athlon MP server, which had many problems, and it turned out to be the fault of the BETA-BIOS firmware!!! Who in a sane mind would sell a mobo with BETA bios? Anyway - I must say I am very happy with the performance since the bios update. 2) regarding overheating - my AMD cpu's usually run even cooler than the Intel equivalent, BUT - never remove a heatsink from an AMD... the sysadmin here removed one for about 3 seconds, and the cpu core blew up (white smoke and cracking noise) - this was with an Athlon-XP+2000 >From my experience an Intel would just shut-down... anyone know if this is a motherboard feature or a CPU feature?! Regards, Tal. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately and delete this communication. ====================== To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
