Effecient engineering (Score 3)

Props to Intel! What a way to keep their system in shape! Heat sinks and fans are already at the highest level of heat displacement they could possibly get. Fans have not evolved for decades - they've only gotten bigger. With normal methods of heat displation, Intel needed to find a new way to get rid of the excess heat the P4s create, and what better way than to have them alternate their cycles as on/off? Sure, you might only get half the clock cycles, but the ones you do get, are two times faster, so you are getting even more performance than a regular chip! I can see this coming into wide use in the server market, where most caculations are quick file access requests, because the average user doesn't need pure horsepower ontheir file server, they need faster disk speeds. I think this new design might also save some power in West, where the bulk of those machines will be bought and used. Then, the other west coast states such as Arizona, Nevada, and Texas can sell their extra power to California. Keep up the innovating Intel! I can't wait to get myself a dual proc p4!