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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (1079)	6/4/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: Dave Hanson	Respond to of 14778

Casual observations on K6-266: performance, temperature, cooling. Just got the K6-266 I mentioned recently in this afternoon, and replaced my Cyrix 686Mx 166+ with it this evening. Very impressive. I have a Z1 CPU-Cool from PC Power and Cooling on both chips (about $25--an excellent, quiet fan-heatsink combo for all Socket 7 chips.) The K6 stablizes at 32 deg C. the Cyrix normally runs about 40 deg. C., despite running at half the clock speed. Since I don't have a huge tower, I'll feel all that much better about using things like removable drive trays with less heat radiating inside the case. I won't bother to do any serious benchmarking, but subjectively, I do notice somewhat snappier performance. FWIW, though, it seems that changing from the Quantum ST drive to the Maxtor 2880 drive made an even bigger difference.