16 Mar
2003
16 Mar
'03
21:59
On Sunday 16 March 2003 22:25, John LeMay wrote:
Thanks Tom. Actually, Intel processors will shut themselves down in the case of a thermal emergency like this. I've had it happen twice - once on a Celeron 400 and once on a P3-1GHz. I don't think AMD has implemented this yet.
It's been in AMD based systems for a long while, although it didn't work so well in the past. When Tom's hardware tested it on a 1GHz Thunderbird, the cpu physically melted before the motherboard had a chance to power off. Rumour has it that it works better with newer athlons, but I've been fortunate enough not to have to try it :)