Avoid the 3.73 EE. Crash/overheating bug

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Intel 3.73EE = Extremely Unstable Edition?

Ooops!

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As we showed already on the last page, the P4 ExtremeEdition had no problem addressing more than the 32-bit memory address space, however, at its native operating frequency of 3.73 GHz, the ExtremeEdition did not finish the benchmark. Instead, at the beginning of the cropping procedure, that is, at the point where the system apparently uses all available resources, the system crashed every single time, regardless of whatever variables were defined in the mainboard's CMOS setting - including relaxation of memory latencies to 5:5:5:15 (to make sure that we were not running into an issue with overall system memory density and the associated load and clock skew that could negatively affect timings).

However, the mere fact that at the onset of the cropping even the Task Manager came to a total stand-still indicates that the entire system, including CPU, was running under full load, which could result in either overheating or else bogging down of the VRM (since the CPU might draw as much as 145W under these extreme conditions). Note that we were using the more powerful Intel cooler rather than that supplied with the 600 series. One easy way to separate the rest of the system from CPU issues is to clock down the processor, that is, we were running the ExtremeEdition at 14 x 200 MHz (2.8GHz) and at that speed, the system did not crash.

http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/p4-600-64/

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Another Intel recall coming?

Interesting...first time I've heard of this, maybe its just a bug for this CPU. Could be interesting to see, if Intel had to issue a recall it could be real bad of 'em. AMD is doing real well and if Intel had to recall...I think you know what i'm saying

jjcom