Author: Ray Banks
Date: 02:01:13 01/03/05
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On January 03, 2005 at 03:05:46, Aaron Gordon wrote: >I'm just curious as to how long these new blazing hot P4s are going to last, and >what is going to happen to Intels reputation if they start dying left and right >on people after a year or two. Guess we'll see in a few years (assuming people >keep the chips that long and don't upgrade). I agree with what you say, but the fact that the P4 throttles down to much slower speeds when it gets hot (and will shut off altogether if it has to) avoids the issues you mwntion above. The chips won't die becuase they protect themselves. They just run very slowly - and people don't get the performance they paid for - or in extreme cases just switch off. In an office situation, where offices are air conditioned, and where the CPU almost never spends long periods under full load, the problems don't occurr too much. Of course i those situations you don't need too fast a CPU anyway
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