[geeks] Ahh, the smell of Athlon's burning up

[Dave Kimmel]

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:28:34PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > I'm sure AMD makes otherwise decent processors......FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!
>
> Heck, the SocketA 700Mhz Athlon in Amy's box overheats from time to time,
> even - and I've got a big Chrome Orb fan on it and the sides removed from
> the case..

I've got an Athlon 750 that refuses to boot (9 times out of 10 anyway) at
750MHz.  I have to underclock it to 731MHz just to get it to boot.  When
the BIOS decides to reset the clock speed to the default it takes a few
tries to get it to boot far enough that I can fix it.  Grr.

On the other hand, I've got a K6-2/350 that Just Works (TM).

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca