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To: Gary Ng who wrote (35984)	8/14/1998 8:37:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 1580142

Kevin, Re:the high MHz of PII come largely as a result of the thermal advantages of the SEC cartridge I have been told on this thread since the introduction of PII that the only reason Intel use this Slot design is to make Socket 7 obsolete and there is no technical advantage about it. So which version should I believe ? Neither - both stories are nonsense.

To: Gary Ng who wrote (35984)	8/14/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580142

Gary, Re: "the only reason Intel use this Slot design is to make Socket 7 obsolete and there is no technical advantage about it." I don't think there's an advantage in terms of performance at a given clock speed. Socket 7 does all the same stuff that Slot 1 does, after all. The both scale to 100 MHz, they both do AGP, etc. But I think the SEC cartridge IS a superior mechanism for dissipating heat, which, as we all know, is a critical factor in achieving high clock speeds. Note this article: news.com "Packaging technology has a strong effect on overall chip performance because it influences both heat dissipation and the amount of electricity that can flow through a processor. By improving dissipation and increasing conductivity, chipmakers can increase speeds and prevent failures." Finally, it is pretty clear that having 1/2 speed L2 is a pretty big advantage PII has over Socket 7 chips. The complaint that people make about how slot 1 is technologically unnecessary arises because the advantages of slot 1 (1/2 speed L2 and better heat dissipation) could have been accomplished without the introduction of a new, proprietary bus technology (GTL+) that in and of itself doesn't offer a lot of advantages to desktop computers. K7, coming 1H'99, will make this abundantly clear. Kevin