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To: Road Walker who wrote (163558)	4/5/2002 12:58:10 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

John, speaking of what the AMDroids accuse of Intel, look at what he has to say about the temperatures of these CPUs. Intel actually has the coolest running CPU, yet the 'Droids always claim that Intel's CPU will run the most hot! I can tell you from my own experience that my 1.8AGHz Northwood running at 2.2GHz runs at only 38c degrees when idle. Cool operation Despite the over-clocked speed of 2.63 GHz, both the BIOS and the ASUS PC Probe utility report the 2.63 GHz Pentium 4 to be running at 42C/107F. That's with a single fan on the processor and no case fan. Contrast that with the over-clocked Pentium III running at 45C/113F, again with a single fan on the processor. Not bad. And now compare that to the AMD parts. A 1200 MHz Athlon Thunderbird running at its rated 1200 MHz speed using two fans (one on the processor and one on the front of the case) runs at 50C/122F. The dual Athlon MP 1800 chips, with 4 fans total (one on each processor, one in the front of the case, one in the rear of the case) each report running at 47C/117F. So while the Palamino core in the Athlon XP/MP certainly runs cooler as advertised than the Athlon Thunderbird, the Pentium III has them beat, and the Pentium 4 has them all beat by quite a few degrees, and using simpler cooling. The other thing that impresses me both with the latest Pentium III and Pentium 4 chips is the ridiculously easy installation of the fans. Both the Pentium III Tualatin and the Pentium 4 Northwood have clip on heatsinks and fans that you snap on and press a lever. One lever in the case of the Pentium III, two levers for the Pentium 4. But total installation time of the fans is, oh, 10 seconds, and requires no screwdrivers and there is no risk of crushing the chip. How many of use have destroyed and crushed Athlons by having to jam down the heatsink fan combo and secure that dumb little hook that never goes into place? I have. I destroyed a Duron 600 and two Thunderbirds last year before I got the hang of it. For some reason this simple fan installation is beyond the scope of the Athlon yet. Why? wbmw