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Originally posted by 89transam
Just like those motor oil commercials that run the engines without oil, then make the jump that somehow thier oil is better. Who runs an engine without oil??
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There is a concept that here that goes without saying.
The idea of being shown an engine running without oil is to say that if something happens to your car, your mechanic forgets to tighten your drain plug, your filter falls off or you blow an oil cooler line, you have a cushion.
By the time that you are made aware that you are out of oil, you engine will NOT be toasted.
The same could be said for your computer, someone walks into your computer room, accidently knocks over your tower, sets it back upright. You enter later that day and turn on the computer, and you were not aware that the heatsink fell off when the computer was knocked over. Within seconds the AMD chip is fried. If you had an intel chip, the system would be unbearably slow, and you would eventually discover that the sink/cooler fell off.
You can also look at it this way, AMD does not put a thermal shut-off in their processors because they want you to have to buy another one if it gets fried. You pay more for the Intel chip because they are not going through the volume that AMD does. Personally, I am all about having a backup device that prevents the chip from getting fried. If I buy an expensive chip, I sure as hell don't want to have to go through the downtime and replacement costs when I could have just paid more in the begining and not have to be hasseled.
Just my $0.02
-SF