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"I.P.Freely" <i.p.freely@spamblockdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>"John Doe" <jdoe@usenet.is.the.real.thing> wrote in message
>> "I.P.Freely" <i.p.freely@spamblockdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
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>> >My own experience with around 400-500 PCs purchased from an
>> >insurance clearing auction. Around 90% of the AMD systems with
>> >blown PSUs (assume from power spikes) had dead motherboards,
>> >CPUs, Memory or combinations thereof compared to around 10-15%
>> >of Intel based PCs with dead PSUs. Now no-one can tell me that's
>> >a co-incidence and speaking to other dealers who also buy at the
>> >same auction they all report the same experiences.
>>
>> Thanks. I mainly wanted to know if you had any technical reasons,
>> like what is the difference between the Intel/AMD power supplies
>> and mainboard power circuits.
>> It probably is something other than coincidence, however there
>> must be something different in order for that to happen. There
>> are possibilities I can think of which would mean the difference
>> had little or nothing to do with whether the systems were Intel
>> or AMD based.
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>Doubt it would be anything to do with power supplies as most are
>not tailored to AMD or Intel but are fairly standard.
But that would have everything to do with what power supplies were
on the different systems.
>I do remember reading somewhere in a newsgroup that Intel CPUs have
>some sort of inbuilt voltage protection or something which is why
>they are more likely to survive a power surge.
That would just depend on the system. As far as I know, any power
supply related thing that you can put into an Intel system you can
put into an AMD system.
>As they say you get what you pay for and AMD being so much cheaper
>etc.
Were they?
>Actually the sub 1Ghz AMD CPUs tended to me more resiliant while
>the Athlon XP series suffered a near 100% death rate, I can't
>remember one of those being OK from a failed PC.
So then you would say that slower AMD CPUs can handle power surges
better? Good grief.
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>I.P.Freely
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