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Subject: Re: AMD XP 2800+ dissipate more heat than P4 2.8 Ghz !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:38:30 12/07/02

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On December 07, 2002 at 17:20:09, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>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? Will it be only 1.2 GHz ?

http://www.geek.com/procspec/transmeta/astro.htm

Pichard



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