Is Intel's Prescott P4 too hot to handle?
Nokkuð góð lesning .. ég er amk. ekki að fara að kaupa Prescott í dag. Líst mun betur á Sempron dótið frá AMD - sem er víst að performera svipað og AMD 64 en á Duron verði

- dk
lol...The Inquirer er djóksíða og það ættu allir að vita by now...
Hi,
imo you have deserved a flame for this article.![]()
The article states: "When the 3.2 GHz Prescott was overclocked to 3.57 GHz, the temperature of the Shuttle power supply hit 94 degrees Celsius, which killed it." It continues to outline problems with the CPU esp. when overclocking it.
Since when is running a processor outside of its specs a valid means of judging whether its use is problematic?
I am not an Intel fan at all (I'm using AMD processors for years), but this is unfair, unprofessional nonsense.
It's already clear anyway that if gamers want to get the most of their systems by overclocking them, AMD processors are the way to go, and if they can shell out the money for an Intel Prescott CPU + mobo, they sure can afford an AMD 64 socket 939 CPU giving them finally equivalent memory bandwith with AMD CPUs.
Also for a gamer overclocking the graphics hardware is much more effective than overclocking the CPU.
As I said already: I am not a friend of Intel, but calling that article "biased" would be the euphemism of the month.
Kind regards
D.Mali