On 15 Oct 2015 18:55:50 GMT, notbob wrote:

On 2015-10-15, wrote:

I never leave on my newer computer in hot weather, but I dont worry much
about using my old early 2000's single core machine with XP.

I need to move up to a new computer, but was not aware of the heat
probs you mention. My ancient P4 box doesn't even leave the PS fan
running during use, only during boot up. I thought the newer CPUs
were similar, but you say multi cores need mucho cooking. Zat include
i5's and i7's?

Thnx. I'll keep this info in mind.

nb
My experience has been the intel processors are not too bad in the
heat department - I have i3, i5, and i7 machines and they all stay
nice and cool without the fans running on high.

Those AMD monsters can be a horse of a totally different color. A few
years ago a customer burned out 3 motherboards - actually BURNED
through the circuit boards. Finally convinced him to go Intel instead
of AMD, even though for a "gamer machine" the AMDs were significantly
faster.