On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:00:48 -0500
kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

> Athlons did not fry themselves without some overt system
> builder mistake like not putting a heatsink on, choosing
> some $3 'sink for a 50W chip so the fan failed, etc.
> Granted it would've been nice if they had a thermal trip
> feature at that point, but it really wasn't that big of a
> deal, who really wants to have to depend on a system
> shutting off instead of never doing so by building it right
> in the first place?

Even if fans did fail, short of the heatsink faling right off, did they
really fry or just crash? I think they tended to accidentally save
themselves by drawing less power while crashed.

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