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To: Scumbria who wrote (123038)	8/24/2000 3:38:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1578510

Intel is unable to manufacture PIII's that run at 1GHz and 80C, so they lowered the operating temperature to 60C. This is a very questionable practice, to say the least. If AMD chose to lower their standards to 60C, they could be shipping parts at 1.4GHz right now. I hope the company has the integrity not to do that, however. Scumbria, Is this the kind of situation where the margin of safety is way on the conservative/cautious side? More specifically, is an operating standard at 80-90C the extreme conditon, where chips rarely heat up to that level? Otherwise, it would seem that Intel runs the risk of having its PIII 1 G and > chips suffer serious meltdowns. ted

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