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To: kapkan4u who wrote (107844)	4/25/2000 3:34:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1573150

RE:"The other thing I hear is that the Flopper's power dissipation MAX is not what Intel is saying in their specs, but jumps well over 60W on some floating-point patterns. The plastic Flopper package may not like that, hmmm." Haven't we been hearing about Flopper packaging problems...? Maybe there is more to the story. Also, what's the melting point of those plastic notebook cases? jajaja Jim

To: kapkan4u who wrote (107844)	4/25/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 1573150

kapkan4u: Re: "<So now this Pat Gelsinger has joined the ranks of Intel bulls*itters? >" Comment: He's the guy who has at least twice been presented to us by Elmer as suggesting that the PWeeIII problems for 733 MHz and above were close to resolution and a flood of product could be expected to hit the retail market anytime...The first time at the end of October, then if memory serves me, again in November...Seems he's their dreamcatcher!

To: kapkan4u who wrote (107844)	4/26/2000 1:21:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1573150

Kap, If I don't forget, I will run these tomorrow. I just bought 2 Coppermine PCs for the office. Whoever warned me not to get them because they are buggy (I think it was Jim McMannis) was I think right. These computers I have work fine with regular Pentium III (Katmai). Whenever you swap the CPU for Coppermine, Windows 2000 doesn't boot properly. The graphics is totally scrambled. Wasn't Intel's fortune built on the fact that the new generation CPUs could run code written for previous generation? It does not appear to be the case anymore. I will investigate this issue further. Joe

To: kapkan4u who wrote (107844)	4/26/2000 5:28:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1573150

Kap, you get the Register "What goes around, comes around" circular reference of the day award, as they picked up your post via JC's. See theregister.co.uk The lad JC keeps his eyes peeled on what's happening on Silicon Investor and points to an interesting post claiming that Coppermine's benchmarketing is fundamentally flawed. Er. Sort of like playing telephone there. I missed the benchmarketing originally, where's Spec whiner Elmer these days? Benchmarking, benchmarketing, could have left out the word altogether and it might have been more accurate. Also up a the Register today: AMD unveils Corvette, plans 1.5GHz part theregister.co.uk which is pretty content free, but has links to pictures of t-bird and spitfire, along with japanese text at watch.impress.co.jp Me, I want AMD to honor the original muscle car, along with Ronny and the Daytonas, and come out with a little GTO processor, or even better (though more obscure), a "kleiner GTI". WoWo. Cheers, Dan.