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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (133630)	9/23/2004 6:39:31 PM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

Pravin, don't confuse a general 104W 90nm TDP with the power dissipation of a 90nm 3800+. In general, AMD wants only one TDP for all desktop parts at a given node. (89W for 130nm) Apparently, they made an exception this time, and instead of just rating all 90nm parts at 104W (leaving room for dual-core), they said, okay, we'll further guarantee that the 3000+, 3200+, and 3500+ will be 89W TDP, and thus work with all existing 939 mobos.) (One other exception may be the 130nm 2.6 GHz FX-55, rumored to be getting the same 104W TDP) As for a 90nm 2.4 GHz 3800+ ? Well, once they relax the limit all the way to 104W, they could ship parts that actually get that high... but what would the average part dissipate? I don't know. What does the average 130nm 3800+ dissipate? 89W? or 85W? Lower? Without knowing that, it is hard to predict the average for 90nm 3800+... If not average, would you like say, 90% percentile? Doug