Why Pentium 500
And that isnt that uncommon with the average user.
Not if it fails in a way that sees the heatsink just loose so it doesnt cool the cpu properly anymore.
That buttumes it actually ends up reefing the cpu out of the socket. That doesnt normally happen.
Wrong.
It isnt the only one.
Yep, which is the reason that I avoided amd cpus while they had no thermal protection.
It isnt the only one.
Yeah, and avoided that bodgy approach the early athlons had with a small easily damaged cpu top etc.
Most likely system difference, I only have a 2.2Ghz A64 compared to your 3Ghz and these things are quite likely sheer clockspeed dependent. What are your timings for a radial blur, spin...
That was already covered earlier in the thread.
Time will tell, particularly with the latest amd cpus.
Its a lot harder to f*** that up with an intel cpu up till now.
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:08:54 +1000, "Rod Speed" Sadly you're right, this is far too...
Yes, but its also very undesirable to have the most expensive component in your system get end by something going wrong when it should have been designed to handle that gracefully.
It makes quite a bit of difference for straight forward operations like applying a filter. The P4 is...
Which is why even amd does that now.
Doesnt explain why celerons had it too.
Wrong, most obviously with the mobile intel cpus.
Thats arguable given what most do on their personal desktop systems.
It can make a lot more sense to spend that money on ram instead.
Thats overstating it with systems that arent used for gaming or say crunching video files from one format to another.
They're about the only things where the benchmark performance is even visible with most personal desktop systems now.
And after that with most personal desktop systems too.
But not with the way most personal desktop systems are actually used.
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