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To: Process Boy who wrote (94949)	1/4/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

PB, For example, maybe an overclocked system would appeal to students of CAD engineering, or a CAD engineer who is also an SKU enthusiast for a play thing at home. People who use CAD (especially Pro-Engineer) are mechanical engineers, designers or drafting folks. They, at least the engineering grads, are also schooled in thermo, fluids, strength of materials, and cooling techniques for electronics. They would run screaming from an exotic cooling contraption that gets, what, 6% more performance than a room temp. box 200 MHz or something slower. They know that the thing is a failure waiting to happen. For 6%?!!!!! Exotic cooling is used in some of the biggest machines (mainframes) that are very, make that extremely carefully designed. A lot of money is thrown at them in hardware because they still sell for a big price. In these machines, you CAN get performance improvement about equal to the CPU speed increase, because you are very often CPU limited, rather than I/O bandwidth limited. 6%, what a joke. Tony