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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (51709)	8/20/2001 12:34:58 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) of 275872

wanna-bmw, "You're exaggerating again. The fastest Pentium 4 CPUs do not dissipate that much more than the fastest Athlon chips" You are confused again. You are confusing thermal management tricks with actual power consumption of the two processors. The thermal guidance is one thingy: you can turn a processor off for any duty cycle and claim any "thermal power" design rules. But the platform has to provide a rock-solid power supply for a processor to ever work, and this official power requirements are as follows: Intel P4 at 1400MHz uses 42.2A, see p.19 ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/designex/29824503.pdf AMD Athlon model 4 processor uses 42.0A at 1400MHz, p.27 amd.com Therefore, AMD supporters have full bragging rights to claim that Athlon uses _LESS_ power than equivalently clocked P4. Formally by 200mA only, but is not it the rule of those number games anyway? Prosperous gambling, - Ali

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