Thermal protection for AMD Athlon XP?

[KeinoDoggy]

I know someone who refuses to use Atlon XP processors in his system. His reason he says is that there is no thermal protection built in to the chip like the Intel processors. So that if a processor fan quits the chip won't get fried. I thought AMD rectified this little undersight.

 

[Richardito]

The Athlon XP's and the Morgan Durons have a built-in thermistor for that application. It all depends if you have a motherboard that actually fulfills the requirements and doesn't uses an in-socket thermistor to relay the information. IMHO the Pentium 4 thermal protection is a bit more encompasing because it also adds heat throttling as a feature.

 

[bozo1]

What Richardito said. It's there but few board manufacturers have actually started using it. The Asus A7V333 for example uses the on-chip thermistor for temperature protection but uses the old under the socket thermistor when you view your temp.

My theory is that people are going to start wigging when they see what their cores are actually running at as opposed to the socket thermistor 'guess' temperatures that we're used to which is why mobo manufacturers are slow to adopt it.

 

[spanky]

why don't desktop processors have the "power now!" (aka - speedstep) feature?

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: bozo1
What Richardito said. It's there but few board manufacturers have actually started using it. The Asus A7V333 for example uses the on-chip thermistor for temperature protection but uses the old under the socket thermistor when you view your temp.

My theory is that people are going to start wigging when they see what their cores are actually running at as opposed to the socket thermistor 'guess' temperatures that we're used to which is why mobo manufacturers are slow to adopt it.

I'm not "wigging", my Athlon XP 1600+ @1600 MHz floats somewhere between 46c and 56c depending on load. The Epox 8k3a and 8k5a (+ versions too) display directly from the internal XP diode.

-Ice