P4 Requirements, per Tom's Hardware

[Richard Cranium]

Comments and additons/corrections appreciated.

Electromagnetic Interference issue addressed->>

"Future Pentium 4 processors that run at 1.6 GHz and more require their heat sinks to be grounded (connected to Vss) to avoid EMI.
To ensure this board makers have to place ground pads around the mounting holes of the heat sink, as you can see in this picture: "
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001120/p4-15.html

57 Watts
47 Amps = a huge power draw, demanding a good sized P/S


Pentium 4 requires a new kind of power supply that ensures the delivery of 10-12 A from the 12V line of the power supply.

Although Pentium 4 doesn't really need much more power than AMD's latest Athlon, Intel decided to avoid the mess that happened to Athlon-owners who used underpowered voltage supplies in their systems, resulting in frequent system failures. Intel is not following AMD's basically ignored compatibility list, which is hardly worth the paper its not written on

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001120/p4-13.html