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Originally posted by pointreyes


This is one of those times where it is important to know if you are using w98 or w98se. When I used W98 on an Asus P3b-f, my PIII-500 Katmai was burning 40F hotter than with w2k! Tried a friends w98se and the temps were like w2k. I was told that w98 burns the cpu at full-cycle.

W98se it is. And the temperatures are indeed the same as W2K. As far as I know, AMD CPU's don't take advantage of idle cycles, so the temperature differences between Idle state and Full load is minimal (ie 3-4 C degrees).

I think that I have also heard that plain W98 burns the CPU at full cycle, obviously by executing extra code compared to SE.