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To: herb will who wrote (39151)	5/11/2001 11:09:58 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Herb, One thing you can try is if you have a high frequency P3 and P4, run it without a heatsink. If you fry it, it is exactly where Athlon is, which I suspect is the case. The thermal management would have to completely halt the CPU to save it. I don't think there is anything nearly as sophisticated in Piii. THe thermal diode in P3 seems to be just for informational purposes. P4 thermal management is more active, that is it slows down the processor, but my reading of the docs was that it was meant for operational purposes, if for some reason the CPU gets overheated while working. It would also save the CPU if the fan died (with the heatsink attached), but without the heatsink attached, I think P4 would fry just like Athlon would. Joe