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To: Paul Engel who wrote (87505)	8/31/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: Oh well - the AthFLOP can always use a good chill. A technical question, if the system cannot go through the cold boot process, will Athlon still need cooling :-) ? Gary

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87505)	8/31/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<I wonder what Kryotech must be thinking> I've always wondered about Kryotech and their interesting little projects. Remember that super-cooled K6-3 running at 500 MHz that Anandtech demoed back in March 3rd of this year? anandtech.com Already that super-cooled system is obsolete now that Athlon 500 (or 550 if 500 was axed) has been released. Yeah, I know, other processors get obsoleted over time as well. But consider this, those processors don't require a refridgeration unit to continue working. With a Kryotech, every time you turn on the computer, you have to wait until the temperature reaches a very cold state before the computer actually boots up. And no doubt that Kryotech unit will consume power and give off a lot of heat in the process. In other words, the Kryotech might be nice if a customer absolutely, positively, and desperately needs the extra computing power immediately. But once non-super-cooled processors surpass it in performance, it becomes pointless to continue running the Kryotech system. Same thing goes for the upcoming 1 GHz Kroytech Athlon systems coming up. It's nice for bragging rights and a chance to appear in the gamerz' web sites, but what's the point if non-super-cooled processors are going to reach that speed in less than a year after its introduction? Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87505)	8/31/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Oh well - the AthFLOP can always use a good chill Ummm... before you sprain something congratulating yourself on the one coppermine running at 800 aircooled, edging out Tom's one Athlon running at 750 aircooled, you might want to recall that the Coppermine is on .18 and the Athlon is on .25 - about to move to .18 - and soon after that to copper .18 The Coppermine is a great chip, and that it runs in air at 800 is a terrific accomplishment, but the world will keep moving around it. Dan