Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Now I grant you that I haven't tested CPUs in this way in many years. But I am skeptical that recent CPUs are substantially different than past CPUs. I would like to see some actual reports of "burned literally" CPUs.
I've never seen a "burned literally" CPU, but I have tracked the demise of an AMD K6 (or K6-2, can't remember now) from hot carrier effects. If all processors were made like that one, you would see a lot more load-induced failures.
Just so. A lot of games are close to being CPU-bound, plus the screensavers used as Mersenne prime finders and the like, and there are few reports of house fires caused by the CPU being smoked.
When I did reliability stuff for Intel, CPUs failed, but mostly not in ways that had them catching on fire, as the stamp guy is suggesting is common for stamp generation.
--Tim May
#1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim (Gentiles) is like killing a wild animal."
#2. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
#3. Yebamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
#4. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
#5. Yebamoth 98a: "All gentile children are animals."
#6. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."
#7. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
