I had a friend whose Athlon Thunderbird was crushed under the heatsink, but everything seemed worked apart from playing MPEG clips under Windows. I guess that s

I had a friend whose Athlon Thunderbird was crushed under the heatsink, but everything seemed worked apart from playing MPEG clips under Windows. I guess that some part of the acceleration for full monitor video or MPEG decoding used a component in that portion of the chip (3D Now! ?).