Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:46:29 -0600 From: "Jacob Suter" <jsuter@intrastar.net> To: "dennis" <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Router Purchase - the bottom line Message-ID: <199611162022.OAA10499@intrastar.net>
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> Dont take it personally...it just seems funny that anyone who > is worried about minor cooling issues would run a processor > at such a dangerous temperature. Its not a big win financially, > and seems like its not worth the risk. The irony is that people > who are spending thousands of extra dollars because they 're > worried about a hard drive failure might just be likely to pay the > extra few dollars for a Pentium with proper cooling Look at it from AMD's perspective: Sell a 5x86/160 (40mhz x 4) chip for $50, or a k5/100 for $100... Which one would you do? My 5x86/'133' running 160 run at about 85 with a small heat sink/ball bearing fan on it. the motherboard is capable of 40 MHz safely (came with a 486dx4/120 on it), and I would consider 8 months straight through running NT and FreeBSD (started with NT) without any crashes decent testing... I do keep a backup MB & CPU around, but any ISP should have some backup hardware around... JS
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