Steve, >You try to put a Intel heatsink/fan assembly on an Athlon chip it might break because the dimensions are different.
I saw that, but the statement below still wouldn't give me any warm fuzzies about robustness of packaging if I were looking at an AMD chip:
When a heat sink designed for a Pentium III is used, it can cause overheating or cracking. Also, even with a properly designed heat sink, repeated mounting and removal can also damage the CPU. In fact, after much testing and swapping of CPUs, we ended up with both a dead Duron 700MHz and a dead Athlon Thunderbird 1GHz. We recommend that all owners of socketed CPUs, AMD, Intel and otherwise, to be very gentle with heat sink installation and make sure you have a heat sink designed for your specific type of CPU. Also, don't fool around too much with installing and removing the CPU as you might damage it.
You shouldn't have to be very gentle with assembly of any part of a mass produced product. I've seen some gorillas on production lines, haven't you.
Tony |
