Newegg the only place selling Mobile Athlon XP's?

[XMan]

. . . and if so, if I want to put one in my HTPC should I buy one soon?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

those and socket a mobo's are no longer being manufactured i believe. they are kind of outdated, but should run an htpc fine.

 

[Pabster]

Yeah, Socket A is dead, and so are the Athlon XP series. You can find plenty of used parts for decent prices though...

 

[w00t]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Yeah, Socket A is dead, and so are the Athlon XP series. You can find plenty of used parts for decent prices though...

 

[superfly27]

Originally posted by: Pabster
Yeah, Socket A is dead, and so are the Athlon XP series. You can find plenty of used parts for decent prices though...

There was a thread here about safe methods of removing your heatsink. Some guy said he had damaged a socket A CPU when he twisted the heatsink. He said that after others suggested you should twist the heatsink to make sure the CPU doesn't come out with the heatsink when you remove it. (It breaks pins sometimes when the CPU is still stuck to the heatsink when you take it off.)

 

[Joepublic2]

Originally posted by: superfly27
There was a thread here about safe methods of removing your heatsink. Some guy said he had damaged a socket A CPU when he twisted the heatsink. He said that after others suggested you should twist the heatsink to make sure the CPU doesn't come out with the heatsink when you remove it. (It breaks pins sometimes when the CPU is still stuck to the heatsink when you take it off.)

You only need to do that to CPUs with heatspreaders. CPUs with an exposed core don't have enough surface area to form a strong enough vacum to cause it to stick to the bottom of the heatsink.

 

[Zepper]

You remove the HS from the CPU while the CPU is still in the socket. You do not pull unless you know for sure the type of thermal stuff that is on there. Some thermal pads can stick to athlons or durons (die type) tightly enough to pull the CPU out of the socket if you try to pull. the only case where twisting is not recommended is if thermal adhesive was used. In that case you have to pull the whole thing out and figure out what kind of solvent is needed - sometimes allowing the CPU to get hotter than normal for a few seconds will allow a thermal adhesive's seal to be broken.
. First, the HS needs to be released from any mounting clips, etc. as it has to be totally freed from the mobo and any mounting stuff out of the way for freedom of movement. The twisting should be firm but gentle - a couple of degrees back and forth should release any pad or grease as they have almost no shear strength. If you twist more or harder than that, then you just don't get the concept... Sorry Charlie.

.bh.

 

[Zepper]

There are plenty of places in the world where Socket A stuff is still viable and will be for a long time. If AMD chooses not to address that market, then someone else will. Maybe Via/Cyrix might come up with a Socket A version as Socket 370 mobos aren't that easy to find either.

.bh.