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To: FJB who wrote (26307)	12/1/1997 6:52:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573219

Robert, re Dell PII 300 MHz: They said this about it, "It's literally so hot they had to design a brand-new cooling system". Yes, "make it so" claims that AMD "jacks up" the voltage (K6-233 is 14% higher than a Pentium II), while ignoring the fact that a Pentium II-233 not counting its L2 cache draws *34% more AMPS* than the K6. That P2 in the Dell takes 66% more AMPS than the K6-233. If I owned one of them I'd worry about longevity of my machine. According to exchange2000.com K6-233's now average about 34 deg C operating temperature, which indicates that the current batch of K6's is drawing way less current than the worst-case in the spec used in the above comparison. Petz