Re:If anyone has a better thermal solution, it's AMD, but the trade-off is that an inexperienced installer is a little more likely to damage the chip. Note that AMD used a case on the old K6-2, but elected to go with a bare die for Athlon to improve thermal conduction. Also note that the surface of a sealed box will be at the same temperature as its contents, e.g. the temperature of a die, and the wrapping of a tightly wrapped die, will be the same. It's called the law of conservation of energy....
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What fun - a mental midget with attitude! I poke fun at one idiotic statement, & he makes two or three more. As an added bonus, this time he gives us two nutzo statements going to opposite extremes:
1. Athlon went to bare die to improve thermal conduction - making it better than Intel's.
2. The surface of a "sealed box" (Intel's soln.) will be at the same temperature as its contents (a 50W heater). This statement implies a thermal resistance of exactly zero degrees per watt for the "sealed box".
In other words, "sealed box" is a perfect zero resistance thermal solution, but a bare die is even better - dude, that is so cool! For the Mental Midget Club (MMC), this is sarcasm.
By the way, Dan, you're now 180 degrees from your original reasoning on why Intel was bad and AMD was good. I think it's always been clear the real reason is that you own AMD stock, but not Intel stock.
-Ted
P.S. I obviously don't speak for Intel. |
