Reply 20 of 233, by Shponglefan
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elszgensa wrote on 2024-05-04, 21:12:I think people avoid them because they ran hotter than their AMD counterparts. But you're probably not running a retro rig 24/7/365, so who cares about the power consumption - just slap a decent cooler on there and enjoy.
edit: Oh right, and they fall into the "capacitor plague" timeframe, which may be another factor.
The heat factor is again where there is misconception because that doesn't affect all P4 processors equally. Some of the P4 processors (e.g. Northwood, Cedar Mill) have TDW values of similar to their AMD counterparts.
And while they were of the capacitor plague era, so were comparable AMD boards at the time. Personally I've had more success with socket 478 or LGA778 boards than the various AMD boards of that era. The latter seem more prone to capacitor issues in my experience.