AMD chips need more power?

CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Hardware
Now, I hate to sound like a newb, but I came across this in some of my class reading and I was just curious if this is true, I thought I heard that some of the newer Pentium4s emitting massive amounts of heat and therfore needing lots of power.

Is this a true statement?

Comments

  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    that statement is probably based on the OLDER AMD chips and old pentium.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited September 2003
    I dont beleive so. I think they were just citing an example, not a fact.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    leishi85 said
    that statement is probably based on the OLDER AMD chips and old pentium.

    hmmm, could be. Just as an fyi though, it's not old curriculum or anything, it's dated 2002
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2003
    Up until the P4, it was true. The P4 is about on par with the Athlon, except for the 3.06, 3.0 and 3.2GHz P4s, which are massive power hogs and use far more power than any other x86 cpus
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