Tim, I hear you with regard to the quality of some of these internet sites, however,
in this P4 / TCC case, I don't think we need to thermally image the chip. In fact, at some level, the fact that this is a *thermal* problem is beside the point.
You can think of it as: There's this 'throttle circuit' built into the P4 that activates under certain conditions. The goal is then to determine those conditions.
Now given that we know (from Intel) that it is related to a thermal issue, getting some processor-stressing code samples together and distributing them together with programs that can assess whether or not the TCC is active and also hopefully report on the die temperature, would seem to be sufficient.
In the end though, if the temperature looks fine, but the TCC always kicks in on code sample X, well, that in itself is a problem, 'thermal' issues aside.
Doug |
