On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Jake Anderson wrote:

*>as far as i am aware it is true
*>the CPU temp i have seen on P4 and AMD systems differ greatly P4 ~ 30-40 AMD
*>~50-70 C

Ah, so now they have reversed ?

*>P4's TPS (heh heh) Thermal overload system is currently the best there is
*>if you have a P4 running Quake 3 then yank the heatsink off the CPU actually
*>underclocks itself practically instantly till it maintains a stable temp
*>(frame rate drops from 180 to 4)
*>AMD lets the smoke out in the same circumastance

True. Benn there.

*>Toms hardware has a set of demo's of this and you can see the AMD chips
*>almost catch fire

I have to see this. Any url ?

Peter

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