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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 259.65+2.3%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST
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To: Petz who wrote (28865)2/18/2001 3:08:24 AM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Petz,

A P4 1.7 GHz will require the hugest heat sinks ever seen in a PC to keep the fragile P4 from locking up and/or self destructing.
And what if the 1.7 GHz P4 needs even more than 1.75 volts? And, if the P3 1 GHz and recalled 1.13 GHz are any guide, the 1.7 GHz P4 will need to keep the junction temperature even lower to reach 1.7 GHz.

Want to hear my prediction? The 1.7 GHz P4 will be such a thermal problem and low yield that we will see a 1.6 GHz P4 first.

If you catch up on Intel thread, you will find some useful links to Intel specifications.

Actually, take a look at this post that has some of those links: Message 15371126

1.7 GHz P4 will not self destruct, but it will slow down to half speed to prevent self destruction. I think it is a clever trick, and I was suggesting that AMD adopts it on this thread in the past as a feature of PowerNow. The advantage is that you can show high clock speed, but the problem is that when you really need it (when you run processor intensive stuff), the processor will actually slow down to half the speed.

I think this will make the benchmarking interesting. Your benchmarking results can start to depend on the room temperature. I would actually like to see the results of P4 1.5 GHz, when the Termal Monitor is engaged.

Joe

PS: I wonder if this is what Kap was hinting about in the past.
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