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To: Ali Chen who wrote (127520)2/16/2001 1:50:34 PM
From: EricRR   of 186894
 
Intel incorporates a thermal sensor that stops the
internal clock for 50% of the time if the die
temperature exceeds some point:

ftp://download.intel.com/design/Pentium4/guides/24920301.pdfSee pp.23-24

So, it works in two ways:

A) the P4 operates at effectively half of the specified
frequency when doing real job;

B) by using really enormous cooler.



So a 1.5GHz chip has different performance characteristics depending on the heatsink?

As summer approachs, we can expect P4 benchmarks to decrease.
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