[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But I feel better knowing that if my fan dies or my socket
cracks, my CPU is likely to survive the ordeal.
Which is why Alphas tend to have their heat sinks bolted on to the chip...
Years ago, Intel laughed at us and our clunky heat sinks. Then, they
created the 60 and
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From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On the other hand, I've used high-quality boards with VIA chipsets
that
have never
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 12:24pm, Rich C wrote:
The fact that VIA's implementation of the AGP specification is flawed ...
I was not aware of this. Please elaborate.
... or their AC97 sound codec is worthless has nothing to do with the
board manufacturer.
Their cheap onboard sound is
On 21 Apr 2002, at 3:38pm, Rich Cloutier wrote:
1. If your heatsink falls off or your CPU fan dies, the processor just
slows down and stops. I doesn't die like AMD processors do.
If the CPU fan dies, or you power-on without a heatsink, an AMD system
should halt safely. The heatsink falls
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Subject: AMD vs Intel (was: Hardware Pointers)
On 21 Apr 2002, at 3:38pm, Rich Cloutier wrote:
1. If your heatsink falls off or your
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 6:12pm, Rich C wrote:
However, powering the chip on with no heatsink is not really any different
than removing the heatsink from a running processor.
I believe the theory was that there were in fact relevant differences, but
I sure don't know what they were supposed
