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[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> 
>>One advantage with the older Athlons is that they left little
>>doubt after a fan failure.  The smoking crater where the CPU used
>>to live is a dead giveaway.
> 
> 
> How old?
> 
> I ask because we had one a few months ago that became a smudge of black
> soot on a piece of plastic. The thermal compound had been baked into a
> rock stuck to the heatsink ;-)

Any age, TMK. I don't think any of the Athlons implemented thermal 
protection like the P4. The newer P4s supposedly even automatically 
downclock when overheating as a form of crude thermal regulation.

That said, the Athlons tolerated overheating better and could survive 
higher temperatures.

Michael