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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (51805)	8/20/2001 8:13:14 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Wanna: I feel that the cooling mechanisms that Intel has researched are also set to support the higher power dissipation of future series of Pentium 4 chips, once they reach even higher power limits. Again, I don't know what exactly you are referring to with "the cooling mechanisms that Intel has researched"&#133 While I submit that general (x86) power-consumption has increased radically over the past years, there is a limit to what can be done just by pushing air - and I don't think we are all that far from this limit. That Intel employs a heat spreader (which could be one of the things you are referring to) on the P4 is not all that surprising since the core is: - Very Large - Very non-uniform in terms of temperature (remember the "fireball core"? now renamed NetBurst or whatever) -fyo