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To: herb will who wrote (39171)	5/12/2001 8:45:36 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Herb, sorry you feel tortured, although the "death of a thousand cuts" might be closer than the water torture. But what did you expect? You throw out something that is mis-represented and expect people to fawn over you? Does the PIII have power management? I guess it depends on what your definition of "is" is. A thermal diode might be considered thermal management, but it requires BIOS support to do that, and as far as I know, they only beep, buzz, boop or whatever when a certain temperature is exceeded. They don't shut the system down, and if unattended, could fry the processor. Many of the SocketA motherboards have a thermistor under the socket which is used in a similar manner. This approach has been around since the Socket7 days, the PIII just put it on chip. Now it is a better solution than the thermistor, but it is only part of package. Currently, the P4 is the only one with thermal management that can prevent a processor frying without special, off chip support.

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