Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Dan3]

Re: heat dissipation is a concern in server and especially in HPC segment

There's another issue that will probably start coming up.

Whenever there's significant extension to the power envelope, there tends to be a lag before the PS/Case infrastructure supports it very well. And during that lag period, a lot of marginal systems can get shipped. This bit the early Athlons, as whitebox shops (and cost conscious OEMS) put Athlons in cases that could barely handle them, and would start acting flaky if a second HD or other power drain were added or if the system were put in a poorly ventilated area.

Another issue is that a system that has to flow a lot of air to maintain cooling will also be flowing a lot of dust, and will be susceptible to overheating due to junk filling up parts of the box.

If prescott really is a 103/120 watt chip, we may begin seeing a lot of reliability issues with P4 systems, that won't really be P4 problems, but case/PS problems.

But, just as the early Athlons were blamed for these case failures, so will prescott be blamed.