Interesting Critique of Tom's CPU Heatsink Video

[KvHagedorn]

Remember the one where the Athlons fry in microseconds once the heatsink is removed?

http://www.64bits.org/cpuheat/cpuheat1.htm

[Kosh Naranek]

Well .... It's all been turned inside out by THG themself and (AMD's) Van's Hardware and AMD in co-operation with THG.

POINT IS : If the MB does NOT have the new type of add-on which AMD designed after/during the release of the THG video the AMD's WILL fry !

No MB's have this extra feature yet !

The Video released by (AMD's) Van's Hardware was totally out of context and was not meant for public release .... as said by AMD themself.

About the PIV ... dunno about that one !

[Wombat]

I can't access that article.

But from what I've read elsewhere, the AMD video is using a motherboard that was available long before the THG video was recorded.

[impact]

Don't think so. It's as Kosh said. Most board manuafacturers didn't care about the addon and none of them bothered to install it before Tom burned the AMD CPU.

[Wombat]

I'd like to see proof of this.

From what I've read, it's not the motherboards lacking the features, but the CPU. It wasn't until the Palomino core that the diode was in place. It looks like this 1deg/sec rating is crap too, from an outside source.

[Wulfman]

there is another video available, this time by via:

http://www.bucktek.net/viaburn.zip

they did a great job when picking the sound!

mfg
wulfman

[orangejulius]

Hahaha -- am no VIA or AMD fan -- but both their videos are pretty amusing.

Great music on both.

Download the AMD video at:
http://www.amdzone.com/files/ amdburn.zip

Download the VIA video at:

http://www.viahardware.com