Why Pentium 506
You mean that video by Tom's Hardware? If that was the same cause as your system failure, then I would have...
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:37:28 +1000, "Rod Speed"
Isn't anything in what?
Either platform has had overheat shutdown for years now. Early socket A didn't but were you buying an early socket A based system new today?
Marginally better means that with the thermal sensor in the CPU, it will react faster, but it need not react that fast if the fan failed or 'sink was clogged with dust, because the temp doesn't rise so fast in these conditions.
Yes and that scenario you post IS handled by AMD's solution. Did you think there was NO thermal shutdown at all? Perhaps this is where you are mislead.
So how do you propose to damage it?
Again this is a very narrow change in thermal rise, "IF" it were too fast for one thermal sensor to handle shutdown but still slow enough for another to do so safely.
Would you be willing to bet far more costly system downtime for corporations? You have an arbitrary context...
... and the XPs did too on the motherboard. Fan fails? Motherboard shuts it down. Dust? Again, motherboard shuts it down. Heatsink falls off? CPU may fry but so have P4s.
You have to reach to find a realistic scenario where it'll make a real-world difference.
He was commenting about it as if it's a reason not to choose AMD, now. Instead, it is a reason not to choose that one old platform, which is same thing I've commented on all along, that a particular issue with some old platform is not an indictment against an entire company's line of products, particularly later generation products. Again, same thing applies to any earlier generation Intel bugs, it in now way reflects on what you'd buy today as a current gen. part.
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