[rescue] Perverse Question

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Sun Jun 15 21:07:33 CDT 2003


On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:03:25PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Die temperatures AT THOSE CLOCK RATES are dropping.  That means 
> they've improved the thermal characteristics of the design, and upped 
> the clock rate again...but not as much as they could have (taking only 
> thermal characteristics into account).  Higher clock rates mean more 
> heat...period.

So, uh ....  you're saying an XP2600+ at 60 Celsius is hotter than an
XP1700+ at 90 Celsius?  Yeah, uh-huh, I can see that ....

(Not.)


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