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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (26236)	11/29/1997 3:42:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572678

I'm not going to argue with what you posted. I am inclined to agree with you that, as a result of AMD's process, their CPU's will dissipate more power and have lower performance. But, again, this doesn't necessarily mean they are prone to overheating. If AMD were to sell 300 mhz cpu's based on their current .35 micron process, then maybe that would be true. But the reason AMD is two speedgrades behind Intel (besides the fact that the Pentium II thermal brick may give Intel some heat dissipation advantages over socket 7) is AMD won't sell maxed out chips--i.e. the chips must meet rigorous performance specifications. I have never had any problem with overheating in my K6 233, which is, all things considered, an old K6 by now. To tell people that if they buy a 233 mhz K6 they have to be concerned with overheating is, quite frankly, to spread misinformation. Kevin