Originally posted by Lance Kinley:
All it takes is a cpu fan failure and the AMD is toast, they run so very hot. Intel cpu's have a thermal shutdown feature that AMD has not duplicated yet. That puts me in the Intel camp.

That aside, the AMD is the bigger bang for buck.

-Lance




my cpu fan failed, on my 2000, and it only ran up to 120... which i hear is somewhat normal for people...

but... its now at a nice toasty 44