Whatever the heat output, it doesn't concern me. I'm still running fine at 933. But when I upgrade, it's nice to know that both AMD and Intel will have better processors than these. The T-bird is getting scaled to it's end, how far will the Palamino version go? Hard to say what will be going on early next year when I'm looking to upgrade! But it's probably going to be a shootout between something like a 2.5GHz Northwood and a 2GHz Palamino core Athlon by then. Whoever has the best motherboard will win my business, and that's up to the chipset manufacturers.
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