<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 30, 2015 4:12 PM, "Neal Rhodes" <<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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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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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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