Kyle:
Many of you are sending in linkage to a video, that is very misleading, of an AMD CPU not burning up when the heatsink is removed. First off, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME as you will end up with a dead CPU if you own an Athlon or Duron. Currently, all of the retail boards sold here in the United States do not support the AthlonXP or Morgan Core Duron's internal temperature monitoring diode. So while yes, in theory, it certainly can work and will work with a multitude of boards one day, do not let these people pushing these videos lead you astray. You can and will burn up your AMD CPU if you try it at home. We will certainly be updating you as to what retail boards will be supporting the on-die temperature monitoring when they are announced.
Excuse the length of this, but here is a mail from the gentleman that the video originated with that we saw first here about a week ago, but we decided to NOT draw attention to it because of its misleading nature.
Regarding about the video showing AMD's CPU did not burned up in a simulated HSF-failure tests. I'm responsible for getting that video, from a reliable source, and posted on the net. First with HardOCP's forum and then Anandtech's Forum...
It is simple as this... both CPU and motherboard (AMD platforms) reference design has internal thermal diode. Chipsets/BIOS on the motherboard has to correctly detect what kind of CPUs it is (let it be Duron, Thunderbird, MP, XP... etc.), so it can correctly calibrate and use the full functions of thermal diode.
Tom's tests most likely did not had the right motherboard to support the CPUs and therefore, CPU burned up as in his tests. Which I'm not surprised... (and no... I'm not working for AMD and I'm not a spokesperson for anyone on this issue)
People been questioning the authenticity of the video, honestly... I can't tell you much more than this... I did get this video from a reliable source and it is *made* by AMD. If Mr. Tom Pabst wasn't so famous, I probably can say something about his video (not that it isn't authentic) too... such as asking "Is he bought out by Intel? Just to to discredit AMD's technology?!"
I'm not here to prove Tom is wrong, just he could've be more thoroughly on his tests. Knowing the fact that Intel's R&D department is much much more bigger and better than AMD's, plus Intel's standardization among computer hardware is incredible. Also noting that he uses a motherboard, which it claims, to support the thermal diode of the Palominos (Chipsets not developed by AMD and board isn't made of AMD's reference design).
Again, you people have my word that the video did came from AMD... and you can believe whatever you want to believe. This is costing too much confusion and it certainly isn't necessary. A simple fact that I've point out and I hope you guys can get it as it is... Like HardOCP said... "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!" Have a nice day!
(Only reason I removed the main download link is because Apache, most likely, had a bug that crashed my OpenBSD server. For it not to happen again, I removed the link. =)
Hardocp has this on their news page, toms test was done on hardware which was NOT xp diode ready, just an interesting side note to the whole crap. Toms new article makes it seem like he brought the heat issue to the attention of everyone, LOL, if your cpu had a feature only newer mobos supported and it was tested on a non compliant mobo, would you be blamed if it failed?
~Matisaro~
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