I'm pretty sure it's lower heat output than modern CPUs, making it even mediocre at space heating.
Sure, compared to other CPUs of that era, heat output was high, but Pentium IIIs topped out somewhere around 40W, while the high end of current CPUs are over double that TDP.
I have a small collection of Athlon XPs and pentium 4s. Keep it because it's mildly cool I guess? It's not worth much. Would make a nice keychain piece if you drill a hole in it. Or just take it apart for shits.
My father, at the time, thought I was nuts for going AMD... Kept bring up my previous K6/2 450 Machine as an example. (Dad had a Pentium 233 MMx at the time I had the K6/2 and they were probably about even if I remember right despite the MHz difference)
The T-Bird eat his P III though
I've actually run AMD Processors my whole life in my desktops other than my 2500k system I recently sold. (had a 1090T, then 1045T, than 940 before that) Not a fan of either, I just generally buy AMD I guess. Or I'm stupid.
That was a uber-chip for it time. I wanted one But I couldn't afford to pay for the extra power
so I went with good 'ole Coppermine 566Mhz Celeron overclocked to 849MHz.
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