Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 14:16:55 11/12/01
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Yes I did read that article and those that largely discredited it (there is a grain of thuth in it, but nothing to do with the actual CPU), go to vans hardware for example. But I must point to the main misunderstanding. I should have made that clear from the start. The Athlon chips are designed to run at a higher temperature than the P4 and they have a much higher tolerance for heat. The fact that a chip runs hotter is a design decision not a design flaw. The Athlon runs hotter and faster (in IPC) than the P4 does. It has fewer known bugs than the P4 and AFAIK fewer incompatability problems that the P4, since it is an older and IMO a more well balanced design. The next iteration of both the P4 and Athlon are the subject of another discussion alltogether. MvH Dan Andersson
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