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To: Dan3 who wrote (144817)	10/6/2001 12:52:53 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan - re: In 15 years in this business I've never seen a clipped on (as opposed to some of the early glued on) heat sink fall off. did you read my post? It happened to me, and although I have as lot of computers for an individual, it is a sample set of less than 20. And no, the heat sink did not fall off - it was clipped on real nice, solid. Just didn't make decent thermal contact. Apparently had just enough contact to keep the system from shutting down during QA. But that was the PIII. I doubt the Athlon would have done as well. I like Athlon, I have 2 machines with the 1.2GHz version. But they quite obviously have dropped the ball on thermal protection.

To: Dan3 who wrote (144817)	10/6/2001 1:16:31 PM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan3, Unless the heat sink is removed, the system locks up and no damage is done. Yes, that is what has happened in my experience (but always with Intel processors). Would recent AMD processors be OK if left for a long time with stationary fan but heat sink in place? John