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To: Dan3 who wrote (135473)5/18/2001 9:33:04 PM
From: Win Smith  Respond to of 186894
 
After that, it might be interesting to to use a cotton ball against one side of the heat sink, or something similar, to simulate a year's worth of of dust accumulation.

That was one of my first thoughts on the throttling issue. Of course, people running Windows are used to things slowing down over time, if they don't fall apart completely, so maybe Intel was counting on general finger pointing to save the day.