[H-GEN] P4 vs Athlon

[Matthew Taylor]

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TomsHardware provides some pretty thorough reviews, they had some video 
at one stage of cpu's cooking themselves after the cooling fans were 
removed to demonstrate a certain brands ability to avoid self 
destruction when cooling was inadequate. As an Engineer I like failsafe 
systems. ie: the whizbang ultra refridgeration cooled CPU might be 
faster, but if it self destructs when cooling shuts down it's much slower.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/index.html


Mat.

bob parker wrote:

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>Hi All,
>over the next few months my son and I will be building a new box with the aim 
>of being able to write divx stuff in as fast as can be reasonably achieved 
>with some economy.
>He has been as advised by some person who may be something of an expert that:
>1. The Athlon is faster than the P4 of the same clock speed for games whereby 
>the cpu is running to it's maximum capability only for short bursts.
>2. When creating divxs the cpu is maxed out for long times. In this case the 
>Athlon overheats and chokes back to about half clock speed making the P4 the 
>superior cpu for this application.
>
>Can anyone make some informed comment on the above.
>
>Thanks
>Bob Parker
>
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