Why Pentium 508

kony writes:

Motherboard protection is less reliable, since it requires two working components, not one.

The lack of this important feature in the past was a direct reflection of decisions made by AMD, and showed that some of those decisions were very poor. Unless all AMD employees from that period have been replaced, the decisions of that era must be taken into consideration even for choices made today, as they indicate the quality of decisions overall.

I lost two machines to overheated AMD processors, and each one cost me a bit over a thousand dollars.

The entire machine, not just the motherboard and CPU.

These machines were SonBooks, and they used third-party heatsinks and fans.

Bad experiences with AMD = 2, bad experiences with Intel = 0. Conclusion: buy Intel.

The odds were 100% if the CPU fans failed, which they did (both being very cheap fans). One of the fans failed within days.

The damage was done by the overheated processor; it was thus an AMD problem.

The fan failed, and the CPU overheated. But an Intel CPU would not have overheated. Case closed.

I have thought about it. Now I buy Intel.

Anything that produces the smell I encountered could have easily caused a fire.

I prefer more than one fail-safe mechanism.

Oh yes, it will. You've never seen those videos on the Web of AMD processors overheating?

I'm not mad at AMD; you are in love with AMD (or at least you seem to be promoting AMD).

I lose nothing by abandoning AMD in favor of Intel. I've already lost way too much by trusting AMD instead of Intel.

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