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CPU temp question

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McG2k1

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So back in the day I had an AMD proc that fried when a fan inside died and the mobo/cpu had no function to shut itself down when it got dangerously hot. Since then I've stuck w/ Intel cause I felt I got burned.

Anyhoo, I'm giving AMD another shot with the 4850e in an HTPC and I'd just like to know if that type of shut down, before cpu failure, has been engineered into their procs. I'm sure it has since that was like 10 years ago but I just thought I'd check.

McG
 
Don't blame the cpu for your failure in ignoring the warning signs of a failing heatsink fan.
 
Nice one! so you don't know either, thats cool. And FYI, old AMD chips were famous for frying within 5 seconds of start up, with no time for a warning. Intel at the time would at least give you 30 seconds or so and maybe some time for the system to post and start beeping before you made yourself a cool new keychain that looks like a fried CPU.;)
 
FAIL Fail FAIL you Fail. The bottom line is that you failed. Your a failure.
 
McG2k1 most AMD motherboards provide fail-safe so that you don't go frying your cpu now a days.
back then all you had to do was use software to monitor the system and shutdown in case of high temps.
 
Nice one! so you don't know either, thats cool. And FYI, old AMD chips were famous for frying within 5 seconds of start up, with no time for a warning. Intel at the time would at least give you 30 seconds or so and maybe some time for the system to post and start beeping before you made yourself a cool new keychain that looks like a fried CPU.
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Bullshit. The XP's burned up in 5 seconds when the heatsink was removed during operation. The CPU dying is YOUR fault for not maintaining the computer.

But yes, it does have failsafes. The system will shut off when it reaches temperatures that are too hot.
 
Its not bullshit at all, the k5 and k6 chips zapped too quickly to do anything about it. Whether that was a function of the motherboards of the era or the engineering of the CPUs or the software at the time, shrug, it still happened.. Thats just a fact. We've come a long way in the past 12 years. Thx for being kewl dewds tho!
 
It was not a function of the CPU more than a function of the BIOS on the MB to monitor the cpu temp and then shut the system down. The fact of the matter remains that you still failed to maintain your system and do some preventive maintenance like once in a while give it a good cleaning like take all the cards out take the heatsink off get all the dus and crap off the heatsink. You failed. The K5 and K6 were damn good CPU's much better performing than the intel chips. We all know how intel was able to keep such a large market share for so long.
 
As long as we agree that the chips fried almost immediately. I guess you have a fan crystal ball that tells you when one is going to die. I left mine back at the store and when I went back it was gone. I guess I should have learned to crack open my case every time before I start my machine and blow out the system and oil the fans. gg.
 
likewhoa said:
I put my hardware in the dish washer once a year :D
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I use a tooth brush on my fans, and heatsinks every time I take it apart for an upgrade or something similar. The rest of it, I just blow off with a can of air.
 
jcg624 said:
FAIL Fail FAIL you Fail. The bottom line is that you failed. Your a failure.
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For the good of humanity: it's YOU'RE. "You're a failure" not "Your a failure." This just plain annoys me to no end.

If you're (note the spelling) going to try and make some unnecessarily snide comment to the OP, at least spell the words in the sentence correctly.
 
This is completely insane.

Old AMD chips had horrible, near non-existent failsafes and overheat protection. Period. This is well known.

They've improved considerably but do not have the same quality on-die thermal sensors as modern Intel chips.

I would not worry about the chip frying on you should a fan fail.
 
I haven't seen an AMD BIOS over the last three years that didn't have an automatic shutoff temperature setting. The only downside is the BIOSes I've seen ship with it set at the highest setting and I have to manually set it to the lowest (usually 60°C or 70°C) which is more than most users would know to do.
 
silent-circuit said:
This is completely insane.

Old AMD chips had horrible, near non-existent failsafes and overheat protection. Period. This is well known.

They've improved considerably but do not have the same quality on-die thermal sensors as modern Intel chips.

I would not worry about the chip frying on you should a fan fail.
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Thank you. Someone who remembers!
 
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