does heat really matter aslong as the CPU is stable??? and works???
Yes and no. If you don't care about FAN noise, heat issue in your computer room and heat issue in your computer case (reduce the lifespan of many components, including HDD, drives, etc...) there is no problem with CPU that runs hot. Personnaly, I care about ambiant noise level and room temperature. I don't want to buy an air conditionning unit, because I want to keep my computer room temperature to a decent level.
Intel fans didn't slauter AMD fans. When the Athlons Xp's where a hell of alot hotter than the Northwood. But AMD fans do it now when intels are hotter.
You are wrong, many complained about AMD heat issue at that time. I still hear peopel saying that AMD CPU run hotter than Intel CPU because of the old Athlon XP heat "problem".
We all know the prescott is hot. but why mention it in every post???
Because, it's the only thing we can talk about when it comes to the Prescott.
Can you blame us for that? I don't think so. The Prescott is not what it should be. It is not better thant the Northwood in most situation and it scale not very well. Intel are probably more disappointed than us about the Prescott.
This doesn't mean that Intel will not sell ton of them! DELL will build and sell ton of them. It's just that the enthousiasts don't see much advantages to go Intel today.
I personnaly thought that I would consider a LGA775 vs S939 system for my next upgrade (aug./sept.). From what I have read this week, there is no doubt in my mind : Socket939 (and even Socket754) is a better choice than LGA775. Even, if S939 don't have RAID matrice, HD-Audio and PCI-EXPRESS it still have many advantages over LGA775.
In the last year, Intel disapointed me. Many paper launch, HIGH-PRICE, no 64bit support yet, not that good Prescott and the new LGA775 will increase system cost a lot (BTX, DDR2, PCI-EXPRESS). The only good news in the last year from Intel was Dothan and they don't push it to the desktop!
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