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To: Mani1 who wrote (94981)	1/4/2000 4:38:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Mani, re Kryotech's reliability, it's just that, the more hardware in anything, the less reliable it's going to be. Exotic cooling arrangements are especially prone to problems, especially caused by thermal shock when temp. cycling. I don't have specific knowledge of Kryotech, but the exotic measures they go to are not warranted for a 6% performance improvement. Some things are just intuitively obvious, if you have the experience, which I have. Tony

To: Mani1 who wrote (94981)	1/4/2000 5:07:00 PM
From: Saturn V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mani, I described my experience with cooled electronic systems several months ago: beta.siliconinvestor.com beta.siliconinvestor.com Given what I know of the reliability headaches of cooled systems, I agree with Tony that cooling for a 6 percent gain in performance is absurd. I have used cooling to reduce the thermal noise of electronic systems, and for this application, cooling boosts the system performance by several orders of magnitude. Cooling a PC for a 6% gain in speed will show an extremely poor engineering judgement , since the cost of cooling and mantainence is extremely high.