Opteron clock throtting

Granted... But I have seen chips that were released after 2001 that did fry if you did not enable the thermal shutdown at x degrees on the motherboard... So I know its not nearly as good...

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Originally posted by Almost Famous
And here you go straight out of the Opteron white paper here:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/23932.pdf

When the processors temperature exceeds a specified temperature, the processor is designed to protect itself from over temperature conditions by stopping it's internal clocks and asserting the THERMALTRIP_L output."

Is that proof enough? The whitepaper on the proc? I doubt if you saw it with your own eyes you'd believe it, but there it is for ya ;)

edit: that quote was taken from 3.6 on the whitepaper.

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That sounds to me like the thing STOPS when it hits a certain temp threshold...which makes it useful for not burning up your processor, but isn't very useful for saving your work before shutting down to fix the problem. Should be called clockstopping rather than clockthrottling.

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Originally posted by steppy76
That sounds to me like the thing STOPS when it hits a certain temp threshold...which makes it useful for not burning up your processor, but isn't very useful for saving your work before shutting down to fix the problem. Should be called clockstopping rather than clockthrottling.

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Like I said - two separate features.

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But I have seen chips that were released after 2001 that did fry if you did not enable the thermal shutdown at x degrees on the motherboard... So I know its not nearly as good...

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As a Sharky member, you shouldn't think that way. 'Its AMD's fault I didn't install my processor correctly...'

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Originally posted by russ_watters
Like I said - two separate features. As a Sharky member, you shouldn't think that way. 'Its AMD's fault I didn't install my processor correctly...'

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But yes it is AMD fault for not having some sort of protection on their processor... What happens if I transport the case and during the knock around the heatsink/fan falls off...

They claim to have some protection, but it is their fault if the protection is not good enough to handle a lack of a heatsink.. Sorry there is no if and or butts around that...

So Opteron has clock 'throttling' (more like stopping) capabilities comparable to Intel's during the P3 era.

Cmon AMD, you can do better than that!