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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (51747)	8/20/2001 1:54:11 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

wanna_bmw, "give me a straight answer" First, there is no straight answers to ill-posed questions. I was trying to tell you that the TDP is not the whole story of robust design, and you are missing the bigger part of it. In previous post, you said: "In this case, just because the Pentium 4 can draw more power, it doesn't mean that it does so regularly." But what this does really mean that if a VRM power supply fails to deliver that "irregular" peak of current, the system would lock, die, freeze, whatever. That's why those 42 Amps are so important. If Intel was able to cheap on heatsinks, it is because they have smarter power management and thermal fault protection via slowing down their processors. However, formally speaking, the P4 thermal throttling is deceptive for consumers since it does not guarantee full advertised performance on some class of applications, if paired with cheap heat sinks. - Ali