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To: Dan3 who wrote (35734)	4/14/2001 8:47:44 PM
From: ted burton	Respond to of 275872

The article was wrong - plain & simple. The author doesn't understand the subject matter. He is way off base, and does not have any real data. The published TDP represents the only reasonable design point. The only changes you will notice if you design to a higher number, are more weight, and more cost. You won't get a perceptible improvement in ISPEC, FSPEC, circuit simulation, photoshop, MPEG encoding, or any other real world app I know of. As for the fuzzed up heatsink issue. You are correct that if the heatsink fills up with lint, or falls off, or the fan fails, the CPU will start to throttle the highest power apps. The alternative, however, is the blue screen of death. Most reasonable people would take the graceful slowdown over a machine crash. I'll likely not be back to this thread for a very long time. Sorry I don't have more time to explain things, but I've got real work to do. -Ted Burton P.S. I am an Intel employee, but I do not speak for Intel.