New AthlonXP's coming with Heatspreaders...

[Technoid]

Thanks Greebe, for telling me that I’m full of it

You and wombat are of coarse right that there’s always some benefit of overclocking!

Back to topic:

These Heat spreaders are going to be nice since they will at least relieve me of the fun to tell newbies that has read THG or annand and decided that they are the new ÜberClockers of the block that their expensive Athlon is burned because their HS is
A: to small,
B: wrongly mounted
C:lying on the floor of the case

Edit: fixed spelling as Az told me

[az]

Technoid: It's "Über"

AZ

[Dogbert]

Technoid,

Nature in an overclocker.
Start with the heavy industry, new engines aren't invented every day, on the other hand, new methods to 'overclock' existing engines do appear almost every day.
People tweak their car's engines, engineers produce beefed up versions of current engines and so on.

When you to a 'eat as much as you can' place with good food, you usually 'overclock' your stomack

Running in sprints isn't very 'natural' since you can't keep doing it steadily or for long. If you somehow manage to do it, you might hurt yourself. Thus - a sprint is kind of 'overclocking' your body for a short while.

I could go on with examples but I think you got the idea.

[Technoid]

Dogbert:
Did you miss the fact that I swalloved most of the really offensive things I wanted to say and tried to get back to topic?

[Dogbert]

Hey, I had no bad intentions here.
I'm not saying that OC is good or bad. I'm just saying that it's a natural thing and whether you find it logical to do or now, just accept it cause it's there.

Anyway, once those are out, you'll see Kyle and Tom trying to remove the HS in order to try and OC them.
Now this is going to be funny !

[Technoid]

More keychains

[Dogbert]

Holy shit, you're right... This is going to be one hell of a keychain (for > $100).

[Greebe]

I was reading an article the otherday where a guy decided to remove the HS from his P4 2.4 that would do 3gigs easy.. only to take it off with a dremel tool and kill the cpu in the process.

Cautous use of a diamond jewelers saw would have been appropriate... Oh wait, don't have that but I got a hack saw handy! (aptly named

[rylan]

hopefully AMD will make the heatspreader similar to the K6-x line, which was a nice aluminum cap with some thermal contact grease over the core, held on by mild epoxy at the corners of the ceramic casing.. pop that sucker open with an exacto knife and its like the exposed core Athlons we're used to (hopefully)

[Technoid]

Originally posted by rylan
hopefully AMD will make the heatspreader similar to the K6-x line, which was a nice aluminum cap with some thermal contact grease over the core, held on by mild epoxy at the corners of the ceramic casing.. pop that sucker open with an exacto knife and its like the exposed core Athlons we're used to (hopefully)

That would be quite awfull!!

It would only be a good thing if you intended to "pop" it off!

Otherwise it would be cooling nightmare!!

[UtwigMU]

I think it's photoshop@ work here.

MALAYSIA?

Besides with focus on Hammer I don't think AMD will change Athlon packaging for remaining few cores. Barton's release is questionable.

Here's a pic of P4

[Wombat]

The other thing that looks wrong: copyright 1999?

I haven't played with P4s, but I can tell you they didn't photoshop a Merced, McKinley, or ????

[Marshmallowman]

athlon was copyrighted in 99'even the normal new athlons(2200.etc) have 99 on them.

It look's real, and it does bare some similarity to a P4, if its isn't real it should be!, athlons do have a brittle core and now the chip is even smaller(.13) it definetly SHOULD have a heatspreader.

IT BETTER BE TRUE, or I will be pissed off.

[Byock]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but if I hear "OC will shorten your CPU life" one more time, I will go postal. Ever seen a chicken with a GUN?

I have had my Celery 300a OC to 450 for about 4 (?) Years now.

It has been on 24/7 as my gateway.


The Chicken

[Ryu Connor]

The image is a hoax. The wrong stepping code and Malaysia manufacturer marking should be the initial tip off.