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To: Scumbria who wrote (93728)	2/17/2000 1:31:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580425

Scumbria, Re: Finally the truth comes out- Just curious, why are you so confident about that UK site ? Gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (93728)	2/17/2000 1:37:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580425

Scumbria - <1. The 1.5 GHz CPU was not air cooled.> Watch Yu's IDF keynote (#2). They specifically state that the 1.5 demo was, quote, "air cooled". This stuff that it wasn't is wild rumor. Check JC's and Ace's. <The fact that an ALU runs at 3 GHz is almost inconsequential. All that an Intel ALU does is 32 bit add, shift, and logical operations. Running that tiny piece of the pipe at 3 GHz will have almost no affect on overall performance.> We'll have to wait for the benchmarks on this. I have been specifically told that this feature will be a substantial performance boost to integer operations, but I have no way to back this up. Benchmarks. <3. The real clock speed was a hybrid 1GHz/500 MHz.> Are you going nuts??? Yu kept referring to the 1.5GHz number in a goofy way, something like "1000 MHz plus 500", but that wasn't why. The whole damn thing has been hashed over on JC's boards to no end. Why don't you take a moment and go catch up. PB

To: Scumbria who wrote (93728)	2/17/2000 1:45:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580425

Re: "1. The 1.5 GHz CPU was not air cooled." Scumbria give it up. This is simply nonesense. intel.com "INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 15, 2000 - Intel Corporation Chairman Andrew S. Grove today kicked off the semi-annual Intel Developer Forum by demonstrating the company's fastest microprocessor: a chip running at 1.5 gigahertz (GHz), or 1.5 billion clock cycles per second, at room temperature. Based on a new microarchitecture from Intel, the chip is code-named "Willamette." Room temp Scumbria... Room temp. You are really making a fool of yourself here. A once valued contributor is destroying his credibility. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (93728)	2/17/2000 2:10:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580425

SCUMbria - Re: "The fact that an ALU runs at 3 GHz is almost inconsequential. All that an Intel ALU does is 32 bit add, shift, and logical operations" What ?? Yesterday you vehemently denied that 0.18 micron transistors could even OPERATE at 3 GHz. And NOW you claim that the ALU DOES operate at 3 GHz, doing adds, shifts, and LOGIC operations - yet it is INCONSEQUENTIAL !!!! SCUMbria - you are a crackpot. Thanks for embarrassing yourself for us all to witness. And thanks for pointing out how AMD flim flammed everybody with their 1.1 GHz Demos !!! Paul