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Old 01-20-2007, 10:29 AM
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I have a 3700+ and never had a problem w/ it
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Old 01-20-2007, 10:57 AM
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I've always noticed that AMD processors pop before intels. Almost ever time I see an AMD over heat for whatever reason, it ends up fucked. I've over heated my Intel P4 like 6 times and it just boots right the ---- up every time.

Use this as an exuse to upgrade, get you one of those fancy Duo cores!
lol, no. Ive fried like 3 mobo's and my amd processor is still fine.
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Old 01-20-2007, 11:32 AM
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My desktop has an old 2800+ and it's still great today and fast.
Lol...I'm stone-age...I'm still rockin a 700mhz duron that I have to overclock to 1ghz just to run anything anymore :P 2800+ would be considered a major upgrade for me
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Old 01-20-2007, 11:38 AM
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yeah i guess it is a good excuse to upgrade, ---- i think i put that computer together like 3 years ago and the proc wasn't fast then. guess its time to start searching ebay for a cheap socket A cpu.
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Old 01-20-2007, 02:18 PM
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138277
thats cheap

but for proababy 250 you get get core 2 duo but you would also need new ram
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Old 01-21-2007, 03:42 PM
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AMD's didnt have over temp protection up until a certain era i believe, could be the Athlon series (not the XP).
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Old 01-21-2007, 04:30 PM
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Sounds buggered, get a core duo, by the time you've fucked with fault finding you might as well have just bought some new ----.

If you have a motherboard with POST code support you might be able to analyse the fault, but given the age of the PC its doubtful.

And AMD cores generally run hotter due to their reliance on overclocking an older core design. The core duo's we use now are not only 2x as fast as the AMD dual core equivalent (in benchmarking and running our software), but run cooler and seem more reliable.
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Old 01-21-2007, 07:10 PM
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The core duo's we use now are not only 2x as fast as the AMD dual core equivalent (in benchmarking and running our software),
, its not that big of a gap
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Old 01-21-2007, 07:14 PM
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If you have a motherboard with POST code support you might be able to analyse the fault, but given the age of the PC its doubtful.
don't all mother boards give a POST beep to let you know whats wrong?
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Old 01-21-2007, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rawr
, its not that big of a gap
Errr, i've seen it for myself, on multiple occassions. During the image recognition algorithms we run a dual core athlon will process a frame every 18ms, the core duo's are rocking the 8-9ms range (did some benchmarks with a similar result). There's a big price differential on the top of the range cpu's but the lower end core duo's are competitive with the athlons. Seriously the core duo makes the dual core athlon look like a bit of a joke.

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don't all mother boards give a POST beep to let you know whats wrong?
You might well be right, try reading your motherboards support doc's and tell us what you find out. It might well be something equally shitty like the motherboard dying etc.


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