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To: combjelly who wrote (77852)	4/21/2002 10:46:47 AM
From: heatsinker2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Banias at 1.6 ghz with 1 mb of cache added to the PIII will outperform AMD's expected offerings at that time If this is true, which is unknown, it does present some interesting challenges for Intel marketing. Intel's marketing machine has been promoting megahertz for years, how do they trumpet the merits of the high-IPC Banias?

To: combjelly who wrote (77852)	4/21/2002 5:01:56 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

combjelly Re..As Van notes, the power consumption figures aren't all that impressive. An A4 is about the same speed and power consumption, albeit with a slower FSB and smaller L2. Now if I am not mistaken, the heatsink used on the pictured Banias on Van's site is a plastic one. An Athlon mobile XP may be faster and have the same power consumption. a Barton derivative will have close to the same total cache size, so the cache size won't make that much difference. <<<<<<<<< Thanks. That is along the lines I was thinking, without having your knowledge to explain why. By the way, I have never heard of plastic having good thermal conductivity like copper or aluminum. Why would Intel use a plastic heat sink? Surely Intel should be able to afford aluminum, if not copper.