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To: Elmer who wrote (127775)2/18/2001 2:17:50 PM
From: Ali Chen   of 186894
 
"The Athlon is hotter while running much slower and has no such cost saving feature."

Before spewing your prejudices, first get acquainted with
facts please.

amd.com
Chapter 4 page 11

"The AMD Athlon™ Processor Model 4 supports low-power Halt
and Stop Grant states. These states are used by Advanced
Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) enabled operating
systems for processor power management."

So, your statement about Athlon lacking of "such cost
saving features" is false.

For your education, this feature is essentially the
same as in Celerons, P-II, P-III, and P4 too.
Unfortunately, the ACPI engagement is based
on software, which may not be very fast responding
to overheat conditions. The difference is that the
P4 has to implement this additional fully-hardware-
based fast-acting (50ns) clock throttling
to protect the P4 chip from immediate frying.

Now talk about "lunicy".
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