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Yeh, thats my personal reason for the Intel over the AMD. My CPU fan broke on my one time, and my P4 managed to hold itself together, I dont think any AMD would live long w/out a HSF.
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Actually, if you have a motherboard to support one of these more recent CPUs, it will have a throttle, or shutdown fuction for when the CPU hits the temperature threshhold. I ran one of my XPs for about 20 minutes b4 I noticed it was being very quiet b/c the fan wasn't running. That one still works great to this day.
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Actually, it's because uninformed people will just buy the ones with the highest numbers. They don't care/know about the actual performance.
So AMD can't just put the clock speed, because then no-one apart from people who know the performance differences would buy them.
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That's one problem, and AMD knows that. If they showed their actually speeds, people would think AMD was way behind except for the people who know their true performance.
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IMO, AMD's market would be the PC inthusiast, as their chips arnt used in minstream PCs as much
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Yeah that would be great if M$ and Intel didn't have those companies contracted below the belt. Even without the big companies selling PC's with their CPUs, they still have many other companies helping them out. One being Alienware. Even their reputation alone is doing them just fine.
Don't get me wrong. Intel makes great CPUs, and I'm glad they are finally offering Linux/UNIX support and utilities. It's the cost that hurts a lot of us. I hate to buy a CPU for as much as I could build another AthlonXP system.