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To: kapkan4u who wrote (64277)	11/24/2001 12:54:39 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 275872

Kap, "almost 50%, is very likely running at 1GHz on a 2GHz P4." As I recall, there were some people who aggressively questioned the existence of half-clock regions in Pentium-4. Here is an excerpt straight from the mouth: developer.intel.com "Different parts of the Pentium 4 processor run at different clock frequencies. The frequency of each section of logic is set to be appropriate for the performance it needs to achieve. The highest frequency section (fast clock) was set equal to the speed of the critical ALU-bypass execution loop that is used for most instructions in integer programs. Most other parts of the chip run at half of the 3GHz fast clock since this makes these parts much easier to design. A few sections of the chip run at a quarter of this fast-clock frequency making them also easier to design. The bus logic runs at 100MHz, to match the system bus needs." Regards. - Ali