Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 14:20:09 12/07/02
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On December 07, 2002 at 14:23:04, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 07, 2002 at 14:09:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On December 07, 2002 at 13:53:27, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On December 07, 2002 at 12:41:21, Fernando Villegas wrote: >>> >>>>Hi all: >>>>Time ago I had for my Me Windows a "Rain" little program capable of cooling the >>>>cpu. Now I use an Athlon and XP winows and it seems there is not an equivalent >>>>to the rain thing. WAnybody knows what to do? I am afraid any day my PC will >>>>just explode. >>>>Fernando >>> >>> >>>As you can see an AMD XP 2700+ runs as HOT as the latest P 4 2.80GHz >>> >>> Maximum Heat >>> Dissipation >>> >>>AMD Athlon XP 2700+ (Thoroughbred-B) 68.3W 0.13-micron >>>AMD Athlon XP 2800+ (Thoroughbred-B) 74.3W 0.13-micron >>> >>> >>>Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHz (Northwood) 66.1W 0.13-micron >>>Intel Pentium 4 2.80GHz (Northwood) 68.4W 0.13-micron >> >>3.06 Ghz is the 'standard' P4 now that's released. And just like >>the 2800 XP i can't buy it yet in the shop, but perhaps soon :) >> >>i remember the previous generation P4 which ran up to 92 WATT >>and the XP up to like 70 watt or so. >> >>XP simply got hotter and P4 well, we didn't test a P4 yet with >>SMT = 2 :) >> >>I would love to know what a P4 with full SMT load is going to eat. >>I count on 92 watt. >> >>> >>>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1718&p=3 >>> >>>Pichard > >Yeah, high-clocked P4s and AthlonXPs are miniature heating units. I hear Itanium >is worse, though. :-) > >AMD actually requires a copper heatsink on all new Thoroughbred chips. I find >that amazing considering I have an old Compaq 486SX 33 MHz sitting on my desk >with the case off, and the CPU has no heatsink. In fact, it's generally cool to >the touch, though it does heat up probably to ~45 C or so when it starts doing >work. > >FYI Transmeta sells Crusoe, a 5W VLIW x86 CPU. It requires a heatsink, but it >doesn't get very warm. They're working on Astro which is basically a Crusoe on >steroids. (Crusoe = 4 atoms/molecule, Astro = 8 atoms/molecule.) > >-Matt How fast will the Astro be? Pichard
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