And all that wattage impacts cooling, which impacts sound. The P4 runs without a cooler, albeit slowly. Is a P4 without a fan still faster than a VIA C3? On Apr 08, at 15:07, usenet at wingert.org encoded a 2.7K recording: > VIA is around 20 watts, where garden variety x86 +/- 2 GHz is around 80 > watts.