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To: revision1 who wrote (35759)	4/14/2001 8:24:33 PM
From: ted burton	Read Replies (4) of 275872

I am the only one on this thread with actual data. Everyone else is simply making assumptions (some better than others). The max power app was programmed and refined over a period of years by the architects most intimately familiar with the part's internal workings. It's only purpose in life is to ring the power bell on this particular architecture. No other app we've seen comes anywhere close to it. The apps you'd think of as power hungry (Ispec, Fspec, mpeg encoding, circuit simulation, gzip etc.) are actually very tame in comparison. They may tie up the CPU for hours on end, but they don't do what the power app does. The thermal management feature allows OEM's to design their thermal solutions around real apps without worrying about someone hitting them with an artificial power generating program. Designing this way would normally have carried the risk of blue-screening, but this feature changes the risk into a very rare, and very minor slowdown. This feature offers a huge advantage, which is really only vulnerable to FUD. Go ahead and hype it up - convince yourselves it's a major flub-up. Don't overdo it though because its a sure bet the OEM's have already asked your beloved AMD to copy it, and they've already got someone working on it. I rarely visit this thread & likely won't be back for months. Sorry I don't have the time to address all the comments individually. -Ted Burton Again, I am an Intel employee, but do not speak for my employer.

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