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To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26202)	1/24/2001 12:19:40 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Monty, Re: I have 10+ computers that we have installed amd processors on with heat sinks, multiple fans to keep the boxes cooled inside, etc. Not our first trip here but the first bad processor. There's a big difference between assembling K6-2s and Athlons/Durons. The latter will get permanently damaged after only running for a few seconds without a proper heat-sink attached. Even if you have a lot of experience and use approved heat-sinks it still can happen sometimes that you accidently destroy your CPU. I wouldn't read to much into this -- I happened to destroy a 1.2 GHz Athlon myself some weeks ago (I never found out why but probably it was the heat-sink which was the AMD approved Chrome Orb, BTW). Even some well-known hardware-sites (like HardOCP) ran into the same problems. Hopefully AMD will integrate a thermal sensor in their upcoming Palomino core which could shut the CPU down if the heat is too high. Andreas

To: Monty Lenard who wrote (26202)	1/24/2001 12:21:13 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Monty, I am just wondering, what heatsink did you use? There were several stories in recent past of people damaging their CPU with the "Orb" line of heatsinks. Some versions of these heatsinks did not sit on the rubber pads that are present on AMD CPUs. Anyway, no need to beat the dead horse (or chip). It just might have been a bad chip. Joe Edit: Add Andreas to the list of people with bad experience with Chrome Orb. I think AMD took the Orb line off of the approved list.