Anyone see the toms hardware amd vs p4 heat test?

[teleri]

Link ot toms hardware article

Toms hardware did a heat test on the new amd and p4 chips apperntly the amd melts down alot faster then the p4

 

[Flatline]

Have to agree that the P4's thermal regulation is impressive, but I'm not planning on removing my heat sink any time soon

 

[TexDotCom]

This has been common knowledge for a long time. I don't know why everyone is acting like we just now found out that AMD chips are hotter than Intel chips (temperature wise). As long as you actually remember to put the HSF on the chip and plug it's fan in before powering up, this really doesn't make any difference at all. It sounds like some pro-Intel, anti-AMD bias and propaganda from an otherwise respectable computer techie.

Just my jumbled and disorganized thoughts!

 

[panhead49]

lol...texdotcom.......brand new story...never heard of it before...

 

[Wingznut]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=563712

Yep, it's been posted.

It's a very interesting video. For those who dismiss it, because your heatsink never falls off... Think about what would happen if your cpu fan were to fail.

Although I'm sure the results would be similar, I'd really like to see the same tests but with just the fan going inop.

 

[krushstone]

hey guy
did you noticed that the fan on the P4 isn't working when he put it back on the cpu?
It seems to be enough to get the gameat a playable speed....

 

[Deliximus]

my cpu fan failed on my Athlon Tbird. It went up to 105C while i was playing Serious Sam for about 20 minutes. Then it hanged. Wheni rebooted, it went straight to the bios and i saw the temps there. My bird lived!!!
birds can take quite a bit of punishment and STILL SURVIVE...

This is blatant attempt to use common knowledge to rub a "con" of Tbirds in AMD's and its fans' face. This guy is starting to piss me off. Espeically after the way he dissed HardOCP (he didn't say exactly, but who else) for running their site like a news page when on September 11.

 

[DClark]

I think that AMD mentions in their specs that they do have a thermal diode on the Palomino, don't they? I always just assumed that it would prevent the destruction of a processor, much like Intel's processors have had for a while now.

I was actually surprised to learn that the thermal diode will only recognize a 1 degree per second increase, and is useless if a plastic socket nub should break or if your heatsink should somehow come off. It's common knowledge that the T-Bird has no thermal diode, but the Palomino has a thermal diode that won't work during a catastrophic failure. The thermal diode on a Palomino is redundant, because any decent motherboard will alert you to a slow 1 degre per second rise in temperatures that gets too high.