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To: willcousa who wrote (160495)	2/27/2002 2:06:26 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Willcousa, Re: "Looks like intel has been sitting on processor speeds above 2.2 ghz for awhile now. Clearly the competition isn't pushing them to run up the speed curve." I think the limiting factor is the power dissipation and voltage levels. Sure, you can overclock a Northwood processor sky high when you turn up the voltage, but that creates undesirable power levels that can shorten the life of the CPU, as well as increase the cost of the cooling solution. Intel's main goal now is to reach 3GHz this year on the Pentium 4, but while still at 1.5V (or perhaps 1.55V, if they really push it). wbmw