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Originally posted by Lasereth
[B] What do you mean by thermal protection? I've never seen an Athlon XP motherboard without a CPU shutdown temp control. Athlon XPs did run hotter than the first batch of P4s, but now it's balanced due to higher clockspeed P4's and HT support. Of course, I could be completely missing your question, so please explain! 
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Glad that you said something..
I was leaning more toward actuall, automatic, throttleing by the processor itself. As far as I am aware, AMD's do not have an 'on proc' way of preventing thermal meltdown. (I know that the bios can make the proc shutdown by temp control) But Pentium's are set up so that the processor will prevent itself from overheating.
Lets see if I can be a bit clearer. If a Intel CPU had a problem where the heatsink were to fall off, the processor would detect a rise in temp and throttle itself back and eventually shutdown, keeping it from nuking.
Whereas, if an AMD chips has a heatsink fall off, all hell breaks loose. The die will rise to 600F, and your out a proc and mobo.
Am I correct in this thinking?
-SF