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thunderbirds burning up?

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gplracer

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I have seen several post in here from people that say they fried their thunderbrid. How easy do these things fry? I was suprised. I have a duron 600 running at 1 ghz. I am building a computer for a friend. I could use the money he gives me to build it and sell him my cpu. That would give me enough to get a 1ghz thunderbird. Do you guys think it would be worth it to me. I guess there is always the chance that the thunderbird could be one that is not a copper one. I t would top out right at 1 ghz. What do you think I should do. My duron is rock solid now. thanks
 
The thunderbirds get pretty hot, I heard that 12 seconds(?) is enough to fry a 1 ghz thunderbird without active cooling. Invest in a high quality fan/heatsink like the fop32.
 
I currently have an alpha pal 6035 on my duron. My duron 600 at 1ghz is currently at 39C and I have been on for hours. It gets up to 43C under heavy load. I have a fong kai 320 case too.
 
i don't think Tbirds have a heat problem per se... people may have fried it by not mounting the heatsink properly, not using thermal paste, insufficient contact between heatsink and cpu core etc... a lot of things can go wrong if people don't overclock it right....

my Tbird runs relatively cool at 145fsb... 39C idle and 44C full load... using a taisol CGK742092(?) cooler and 21cfm fan... maybe with one of those delta screamer fans, my cpu temp can go down somemore....

just my 2 cents
 
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