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To: Buckwheat who wrote (45228)	1/10/1999 2:29:00 AM
From: Marshall	Read Replies (1) of 1580270

Just a guy that prefers AMD chips peeking in. I think the key is "low power" - not "low voltage" although they do seem to go hand in hand. It was really hard to get much below 3.3V and it gets harder as anyone tries to go down from there for a full-blown processor. A typical silicon junction drops ~0.6V and with the way most chips have to be designed you've got several of them in series thus necessitating a few volts for the circuitry to operate. I'm always quite a few generations behind on my home PC - I'm still running an AMD 486DX4-120 SV8 / 40 MHz bus system I built but this baby still cooks when your major apps are just involved with the 'net. I'm planing on going to a K6 pretty soon from ftnyc.com My laptop has some sort of CPU called a "Pentium" - whatever that means. :-)

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