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To: combjelly who wrote (27106)	2/1/2001 8:11:03 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> I don't know if AMD has released the exact difference between the two, but the "enhanced" version will also > support changing the voltage level in addition to the clock of the "standard edition". This is per an interview > with Drew Prairie (sp?) and I believe that was mentioned in either the analyst meeting or possibly in one of the > quarterly CC. How many steps and the other details I haven't seen. I'm pretty sure that Classic PowerNow! changes voltage. If it didn't, the power savings would be (comparatively) virtually nothing. jc-news.com I have no proof, but at that url is at least some circumstantial evidence. I had the bad luck of photographing a PowerNow! screen twice at points where the cpu was being maxed out (at highest voltage levels). Still, you can see a couple mentions of changing voltage levels there. PowerNow! II .... There has been some really wacky rumours on that. I vaguely recall somebody (probably here) saying that it'd be able to turn off idle pipelines or functional units or something crazy like that.     -JC