For a friend: 3.4ghz Prescot is WAY hoT! 175hot!

[bazooka]

I would definitely get rid of the stock fan and get a better one.

[waheed]

I'm after an XP3500 within the next month.

Do you mean Athlon64 3500 winchester

Cos thats what im upgrading to after the new year (hopefully prices will fall after the christmas period)

[ViRaL1]

Speaking of 64bit XP. HAs anyone noticed that since the MS Public Beta version there has been no leaked info, and no leaked betas to hear about on any webpages? Kinda strange really, any other MS product and some website would be hacking apart a leaked beta at least 5 times over by now, but instead NOTHING.

Makes ya wonder...

Were you looking to get it, or do you already have it?

[Faustus]

Speaking of 64bit XP. HAs anyone noticed that since the MS Public Beta version there has been no leaked info, and no leaked betas to hear about on any webpages? Kinda strange really, any other MS product and some website would be hacking apart a leaked beta at least 5 times over by now, but instead NOTHING.

Makes ya wonder...

Were you looking to get it, or do you already have it?

I don't even have a CPU to use it, though I imgine I will eventually. I just find it odd that we've heard nothing new about it. No firm release date, no new info. No updates on any websites with info obtained from leaked copies. NOTHING.

Its like either for some reason the secuirty on the project is ultra tight, or it ultra sucks so bad nobody has bothered to leak it.

Maybe its a plot by Intel to pay off MS so that an OS to use the Athlon 64 doesn't come out.

[MACCA350]

I dont know, how do you find out if it is or not?

[Faustus]

I dont know, how do you find out if it is or not?

It shouldn't be. The Prescotts seem to run hotter then the older ones, the speed on yours sounds prePrescott

[gmatov]

Are you guys aware that Intel itself has said that their processors are approaching the Watt/density of a nuclear reactor?

ie, the draw over the minimal size of the die, what, 1/6 of a square inch, and 70 or 80 watts to be dissipated. One hot sumbitch. Cooling is getting to be more and more difficult.

Boxed processor is guaranteed to keep the chip cool enough to run, or they will replace under 3 year warranty. Buy a Super Thermotake, instead, stick it in your butt, dummy.

I just burned up a 2400 XP and thought I had the boxed HS, but , No,Volcano Copper. Tough shit.

Cheers,

George

[rallynavvie]

Intel will warranty other HSF. There's a short list of approved ones, but they support them. At least they do on the server side of things. They don't support them overclocked. Intel chips will still throttle down until it shuts off the computer rather than damage the chip. The old Athlon chips didn't have this feature. Proper cooling will just get you better performance from your CPU, not necessarily keep it safer.

[shelbyGT]

My AMD came from the makers running quite hot... played around with it and noticed that my side case fan was blowing the wrong way. HAH

[glockjs]

so i dont get how they can tell what HSF you used in the first place?

[mujahid7ia]

Speaking of 64bit XP. HAs anyone noticed that since the MS Public Beta version there has been no leaked info, and no leaked betas to hear about on any webpages? Kinda strange really, any other MS product and some website would be hacking apart a leaked beta at least 5 times over by now, but instead NOTHING.

Makes ya wonder...

Were you looking to get it, or do you already have it?

I don't even have a CPU to use it, though I imgine I will eventually. I just find it odd that we've heard nothing new about it. No firm release date, no new info. No updates on any websites with info obtained from leaked copies. NOTHING.

Its like either for some reason the secuirty on the project is ultra tight, or it ultra sucks so bad nobody has bothered to leak it.

Maybe its a plot by Intel to pay off MS so that an OS to use the Athlon 64 doesn't come out.

LOL

or maybe Intel is making M$ support their Pentium 4 64 bit instruction set before XP64 is released...

[waheed]

Edit

[gmatov]

Glock,

As far as AMD is concerned, if you have an HSF with a registered SN, not that you went to the site to do so, it is covered under the 3 year "Boxed", aka Processor in a Box, warranty.

Should you have gone to a nitrogen cooling system, so long as it was a PIB, you are covered.

Cheers,

George

[glockjs]

Glock,

As far as AMD is concerned, if you have an HSF with a registered SN, not that you went to the site to do so, it is covered under the 3 year "Boxed", aka Processor in a Box, warranty.

Should you have gone to a nitrogen cooling system, so long as it was a PIB, you are covered.

Cheers,

George

oh i have the original HSF....sitting in a box in the closet


it just makes no sense how they would cover a crappy ass fan but not an all copper with a 80x80 case fan that im runnin. i cool the chip by 10-20 but they wont cover it? oh give me a break