[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: OT: New Hardware Question -- heat and scalability by core

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:47:48AM -0800, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:38, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> > I prefer AMD processors for many reasons - the heat is a side effect of
> > performance. But you can control it.
> 
> If you compare to the P4, Athlon series are _cooler_.  Most people are
> still thinking Athlon v. P3.  It all has to do with the generations.
> 
The original Athlon XP core was actually incredibly warm, Thoroughbred and
Barton cores do not have this problem.  Athlon64/Opteron cores certainly do
not have this problem, and I run the standard OEM coolers on most of my
Athlon64 and Opteron systems.

Justin