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On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:51:33 GMT, "Felger Carbon" <fmsfnf@jfoops.net>
wrote:
>"Robert Myers" <rmyers1400@comcast.net> wrote in message
>news:q0iga1tlh9va56eqhnaeautl54esrm89qj@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:41:47 GMT, "Felger Carbon"
><fmsfnf@jfoops.net>
>> >
>> >Has anybody applied a full workload (at the same time) to both
>> >Prescotts in a Pentium D package yet? Was the result a two-alarm
>or
>> >four-alarm fire? ;-)
>>
>> No need to worry about temperature, but do keep an eye on
>performance.
>> Throttling, and all.
>
>Are you telling me that Pentium Ds cannot really be used to perform
>useful work, Robert? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! ;-)
>
Oh, you'll get _some_ useful work out of it, all right, maybe just not
as much as you'd think you'd have a right to expect. I only found one
case of documented throttling
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=http%3A//www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/pentiumd-820_5.html&ei=h12oQs25Ore0aM-ioJQP&sig2=NSkuSQRUJoQM4-ouRZaGwA
and that was in overclocking, but I'll bet that throttling of Pentium
D's under heavy load isn't a rare occurrence--maybe just hard to
document.
RM