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Old July 14th 18, 07:22 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default AMD and a hot date to flirt at the horrorshow

On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 18:19:12 -0400, Flasherly wrote:

On S

Never owned a Mobile Athlon, looked at 'em, and only one Barton (2.5GHz)
which I sold in a discounted build for unrelated (MB) issues (brownouts
caused the MB to reset the CPU to 1.2Ghz).

I personally don't feel comfortable running Athlons in excess of 120F.
Desktops. Not sure if that Mobile may be sped'd somewhat higher.


I think the voltage is just spec'd lower, allowing it to run cool enough
in a laptop.

I dropped the voltage again, to 1.325, and Xfce's "Whisker Menu" lost its
marbles. 2Ghz and 1.375v is where it will stay.

The lack of SSE2 is what will put it out to pasture. In another year,
maybe two. Firefox 52.9ESR is the last FF that will run on this old
processor.