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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (135463)	5/18/2001 8:06:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 186894

I think the point is, (according to his tests) the P4 did throttle indicating an active throttling mechanism. Now, the very strong implication is that had Intel not provided this throttling mechanism, something very bad (lock up/system crash) might have happened. In that sense throttleing is good. Its much better to run a bit slower then to lock up or crash or even damage the chip. Its not the throttleing down that would be such a problem its that it is needed. It should be very rare in any non-overclocked decently cooled system. If it is not then Intel is rating the clock speed of its chips too high. If it is very rare then the throttleing is just an extra safety mechanism. Even if it is rare it might indicate that the P4 on .18 won't scale as well as many people thought it would. Tim

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