I had my old Athlon 800 running at 1200mhz, that old Thunderbird ran a bit hot but super fast. Big ass heatsink right on the bare die (which was the style at the time), it creaked any time you wanted to mount the heatsink.
AMD ruled back then, when Athlon 64 came out it blew my mind. When Socket 754 came out it was like the big boy CPU but affordable. My friends with Pentium 4 Preshotts were jealous, those things ran slow and hot, I was zooming. It wasn’t till Phenom AMD started falling off.
Their lack of a thermal regulator was a double edge sword. You could run them hot and fast but I had a heat sink fail (manufacturing defect) and my processor became a smoldering pile of slag.
I had my old Athlon 800 running at 1200mhz, that old Thunderbird ran a bit hot but super fast. Big ass heatsink right on the bare die (which was the style at the time), it creaked any time you wanted to mount the heatsink.
AMD ruled back then, when Athlon 64 came out it blew my mind. When Socket 754 came out it was like the big boy CPU but affordable. My friends with Pentium 4 Preshotts were jealous, those things ran slow and hot, I was zooming. It wasn’t till Phenom AMD started falling off.
Their lack of a thermal regulator was a double edge sword. You could run them hot and fast but I had a heat sink fail (manufacturing defect) and my processor became a smoldering pile of slag.