[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: OT: New Hardware Question -- heat and scalability by core

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 07:38, Tom Adelstein wrote:
> I prefer AMD processors for many reasons - the heat is a side effect of
> performance. But you can control it.

If you compare to the P4, Athlon series are _cooler_.  Most people are
still thinking Athlon v. P3.  It all has to do with the generations.

The PPro (P3) core was never designed to scale more than 1GHz.
The Athlon (it's the same 32/64) core was designed to scale 0.5-3GHz.
The P4 core was designed to scale 1.5+GHz (currently 3.8GHz and holding)

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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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