Palomino and Thoroughbred Copper Cap

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CPU cores are made of silicon and that is brittle like glass. Nobody knows this better than users of AMD's Athlon CPUs. Due to well-known thermal reasons a heatsink has to be firmly mounted on the CPU and a heavy piece of metal is the natural borne enemy of the little brittle Athlon core.


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