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Comment by chaoskitty

This isn't good. Then again, the amount of power going in to these CPUs is way too high.

Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothing like a modern motherboard. The two CPUs take 64 watts each.

Now we have AMD CPUs that can take 170 watts? That's high, but if that's what the motherboards are supposed to be able to deliver, then the pins, socket and pads should have no problem with that.

Where's AMD's testing? Have they learned nothing watching Intel (almost literally) melt down?

parent chaoskitty 1 year ago

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