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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 :)
Yes, the AMDs are so thermally frigile that on average if something like the cpu fan seating is done improperly the the cpu will literally fry in under 3 seconds. Most of the time this particular situation happens at boot up and by the time the system boots to the point that it can give a warning (a POST) the owner will smell something burning and in some cases I had friends tell me that they immediately looked over at the case to see smoke coming from it. I had the guy at the shop where I bought my board and cpu install the cpu and fan to the board - he said that if it fried or similar that he could cover it, but if I put it in that I was on my own. Presently my system has 3 system fans (one is the same size as a cdrom - can't remember the dimensions), one cpu fan (of course) and 2 hard drive fans. It's still runs a tad on the warm side. I really like the AMD cpu - just wish they weren't so fragile. The upside to pentiums/celerons is that they keep chugging away. I had a cpu fan become partially detached - I noticed it when my system became really slow and started to give mem errors. I turned of the systems for a bit, reattached the fan, and didn't have any further issues. Cheers, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+dPsV7WVLiDrqeksRAhkvAJ0aGe9HlcRWCEKsVPdr7qv1SrbrDwCgmoDf 5YYH5zPY4lA+BDThZKuSjjs= =clbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----