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To: Joe NYC who wrote (39090)	5/11/2001 3:31:02 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: Frying Athlons when running without heatsink This has nothing to do with your discussion with Herb but it just reminded me of a new motherboard I wanted to post about but forgot to do so. It's the GA7DXR from Gigabyte (KT266) and you can found a review here: zdnet.de The interesting thing: It's cutting the power from the CPU immediately if a certain thermal threshold is surpassed. Even if you run a 1.33 GHz Athlon at 1.85V without any heatsink, it works flawlessly (of course it cuts power during the boot sequence then). The board uses a thermal probe which lies directly beneath the CPU die, so the temperature reading is very accurate (minus a couple of degrees) and the boards reacts immediately. I wonder why there are no other motherboards with this feature? It shouldn't be too hard to implement and can save the user many dollars (or Euros). Andreas