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To: Ali Chen who wrote (150423)11/29/2001 6:14:05 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Respond to of 186894
 
Ali, Re: "Didn't you furiously attack people on the other thread aggressively questioning the sole existence of 1/4 clocked areas?"

Therein lies your confusion. I have never claimed that a "slow" clock doesn't exist in the Pentium 4. Rather, I "attacked" Kapkan because he was repeatedly claiming that this slow clock specifically applied to the decoder and other logic - without showing proof when asked. Therefore, I pose you the same question:

Do you plan to continue this nonsense about the Pentium 4 "slow" clock running the majority of the chip, or will you take the quote at face value when it says, and I quote:

"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."

Try to keep your story straight, and please make an effort not to put words in my mouth that I never said.

wbmw



To: Ali Chen who wrote (150423)11/29/2001 6:15:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Ali, <I wonder how you could skip this part: "A few sections of the chip run at a quarter of this fast-clock frequency" ?>

I wonder how you couldn't figure out that "fast-clock" means the 3.0 GHz clock, i.e. the speed of the 2x ALU.

Of course, it all depends on what your definition of "most" is, doesn't it? ;-)

Tenchusatsu