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To: kash johal who wrote (41594)	11/16/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574854

<I would enjoy a Kryotech for the K7 which should enable operation in the 600-650 Mhz range. I can see lots of workstation/server customers willing to pay for the extra performance for a $500 adder to their system costs.> And spend the extra tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity as the Kryotech K7 hits a "reliability snag"? Let's face it, the Kryotech products are for hobbyists who are willing to spend extra dough for the speed boost. That's a very nice niche for Kryotech, and certainly a project which attracts the attention of the press, but a serious product for the workstation and server segment it is not. Tenchusatsu

To: kash johal who wrote (41594)	11/17/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 1574854

Kash, Re: "As you may be aware folks have cooled CPU's in the mainframe arena for years.<<< Sure. The last of the high density ECL machines had to be liquid cooled. However, that was more to keep the chips from literally burning up than for performance. Off the top, I can't see suffering the cost, reliability and maintenance hits you'd get from Kryo type cooling apparatus for "just" a 400 to 500 MHz improvement. Why not go to a "vanilla" dual processor machine instead? Tony