for new parts and trying dif things with no luck I know what you mean. I would normally try a new graphics card, cpu or psu first too. It looks to me like you have done already so that only leaves the mobo or cpu. Why not try your cpu in your friends mobo...

Do any AMD CPUs have Thermal Protection. I am thinking of buying an AMD processor for my next system. I know that the Duron's don't have Thermal Protection but to the Thunderbird or faster Athlon's have Thermal Protection? Thanks in Advance....Chris. I...

Thermal Protection is it all that?. I've Read alot about the AMD vs Intel Cpu Battles! And one of the biggest arguments from the Intel side is no thermal protection. I would like to comment on this, there are 2 boards that I know of that will shutdown the system...

about frying a chip is less, and I'll sleep better. Dual rules! Seeing how that is the last real advantage of a pentium chip as it soundly gets beaten on all aspects of performance will you finally buy an amd chip when they do add thermal protection? A...

Current state of CPU thermal diode/heat protection?. Back in the day (2001) Tom's pulled the heatsinks off several AMD and Intel processors just to see what would happen. If memory serves all the AMD chips burned up. The older Intel chips locked up and the...

Help on CPU thermal protection. Hi..i'm new here but I have a couple of dumb questions to ask you all great people, so here goes!! I'm planning to buy a new computer soon, but I'm divided between an Athlon and P4. I've seen recently the THG videos about...

else's computer... I sold the mobo and CPU to someone else. There was no such thing as thermal protection for early T-Bird CPUs and Tom even proved that when AMD did integrate thermal protection, it wasn't exactly perfect. It's all a moot point, since...

about the article but they are proving every point he made about amd trolls. the trolls are as bad as he said but he was saying that every amd fan is so die hard they wont accept pentium as any sort of real cpu. how do you shoot the devil in the back? what...

10:29 PM. Many AMD cpu's have self destructed in the socket due to lack of thermal protection. Many more have died from crushed core. Even the slightest chip can render a AMD cpu useless. AMD expects the motherboard maker to protect the CPU with thermal...