Don't even get me started on the crappy chipsets part - :D As much as I've been using AMD chips sine the K6, I have noticed lately AMD has been cutting corners - the stock heatsinks are absolute JUNK - Recently I ordered a couple of retail CPUs and one of the heatsinks was different than the others, and did not have ANY screws holding the fan to the heatsink - The processor box was SEALED, chip was never used. The CPU runs extremely hot with the stock cooler, running at very close to threshold - something that never was the case for me with older chips and i'm not even overclocking. The problem with AMD CPUs is that you are stuck with shitty chipsets - I think AMD is headed for difficult times - one would expect that their own chipset would be decent for their own CPUs.....
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