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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (143695)	9/18/2001 6:57:38 PM
From: Gary Kao	of 186894

Death of a Palomino: More comments from Tom tomshardware.com Those pictures cannot show you what happened by far as good as our test-lab video. A split second after the heat sink had been taken off the Palomino-Athlon, the system crashed. We then watched in horror as smoke clouds rose from the overheating core. The temperature measurement ensured us of what we had feared. No semiconductor survives almost 300 degrees Celsius / 580 degrees Fahrenheit. Palomino was dead. We rushed to the telephone to confer with Siemens. The engineers assured us that what we had seen was for real. The thermal diode of Palomino is unable to react quickly enough. Only 1 degree/s is what the thermal diode is able to handle. That might be good enough for failing fans. A fallen off heat sink however will ensure a dead Athlon processor and possibly a damaged motherboard as well. What a serious disappointment! We speculate that the thermal diode was basically included into the Palomino core because of Mobile Athlon4. A mobile processor requires a thermal protection and a clock throttling logic. However, AMD never designed this minimal thermal protection management to handle incidents like the complete failure of a heat sink.

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