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Yeah, probably a bit too much spin on my part. You can tell I'm still .......... not a happy bunny over having to replace a notebook prematurely. <BR>
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On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 16:19 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<BR>
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Sadly, those chips can get hot enough to reflow their attachment solder. However, that is only a specific problem with HP who used a poorly sized heat sink coupled with a low quality thermal pad. Asus didn't have the problem as they bolted on the heatsink.<BR>
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On Mar 30, 2015 4:12 PM, "Neal Rhodes" <<A HREF="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</A>> wrote:
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Well, I have on one corner of my Desk an HP Pavillion notebook with AMD components. It has apparently gotten too hot watching BBC shows on Acorn, and the GPU has de-soldered itself from the board. And apparently this is a known behavior of HP notebooks with AMD components. While shopping for an Intel replacement, even at the low tech Office Depot if you say "No, I don't want to look at HP nor AMD" they say "oh, you must have been burned by your AMD GPU, eh?". <BR>
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Thus an HP/AMD computer has the lonely status of the ONLY computer I or my company has ever owned which will not now boot up. I have a few still that are obsolete, but at least they will power up. <BR>
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So, I have no sympathy for AMD. Or HP. <BR>
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Neal Rhodes<BR>
(formerly HP Netserver certified) <BR>
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On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:29 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
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Ouch.
AMD is not doing well. After kicking Intel in the teeth a decade ago
with the Opteron they ran into build issues, stumbled, and have never
recovered their momentum. They still don't have a PCIe v.3 capable
chipset. It's been 4+ years since PCIe v.3 came out. That alone will
kill them in the server market.
Their consumer cpu's are still a better bang for buck line-up than Intel
but they can't sell enough of what looks like last year's technology to
the gamer crowd or the business box buyer.
I don't expect to see them around in 2020 and that will be a bad thing.
On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:21 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Today in microcenter i didn't see any AMD based laptop ...
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