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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (24930)	6/18/1997 12:55:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	of 186894

Jim - Re: "Can you estimate how fast a K6 would be relative to the P2 if it was integrated onto a slot 1 brick?" The K6 has a Pentium/Slot 7 pin out. The architecture has a common data bus (64 bits wide) with which the CPU reads and writes data to either the external L2 cache Or the main memory. In principle, you could re-package the K6 into a little card that fits the form factor of the slot 1 card - but there would be NO separate connection to the L2 cache. The L2 cache would still have to be driven off the same data bus as main memory, even though the L2 cache could be palced inside the SEC module. Hence, there would be NO advantage from repackaging the K6 in the Slot 1 Thermal Brick package. However, one advantage of using the Thermal Brick would be to use that Heat Sink for the 233 MHz K6 which pours out 28 watts worst case as it has to be jacked up to 3.2 volts to get to these speed levels. The Thermal Brick would go a long way to cool that K6 and help prevent the reliability problems that it is bound to run into - at such high voltage levels and power dissipation. Paul

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