[rescue] desperately need a window manager

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:54:16PM -0500, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> I'd say my brother's Athlon XP is worse.  A few split seconds of runtime
> with a slightly loose heat sink.... cookohrama... smoke etc.  Piece of
> crap.  The cpu substrate is a strange organic material now rather than
> ceramic.

Four seconds without a heatsink is what AMD says.  Four seconds then POOF.

(P0 0F!)

Thats why my latest x86 system is Intel-based.  At least Intel will slow down 
the chip to keep it from frying.  I cracked the die on my first Athlon while 
putting the heat sink on (and it took 3 days to die; until the thermal grease
got into the crack.. *bamf*).  I didnt want to have to go through that again,
so the latest box is a celeron 850.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX