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05-21-2007, 06:10 PM
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| The Bulldog  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet
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|  something dosent add up here If i understand correctly the smaller the wafer you make for an IC the less power it requires and the less heat it gives off. so why do the chips we have now require bigger power supplies and ever more elaborate cooling solutions? I know that the increased clock speed factors in but do we really need 500 watt psus and water cooling for todays high end rigs? or have the engineers gotten lazy on us?
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05-21-2007, 06:24 PM
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| call me... tater salad  Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Re: something dosent add up here Sound's like they are just getting sloppy and are designing PC components that require far to much power that just seems illogical especially today when we are told to use less power. I am not to educated on this subject so I can't comment further on it.
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05-21-2007, 06:32 PM
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| Retired.  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, California
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 | Re: something dosent add up here Theyre trying to give the processor a hidden heating element for it to warm up the room.
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05-21-2007, 06:34 PM
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05-21-2007, 09:20 PM
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| The Bulldog Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In an empty Ramen packet
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| Re: something dosent add up here but c'mon even the AMD single core chips like in my last build would heat my room up. what is wrong with this? shouldn't a chip manufactured at the 65nm process give off less heat and require less power then one on a 130nm process? i mean the transistors are far smaller and take much less power to move.
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05-21-2007, 09:22 PM
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| Re: something dosent add up here but theres more "movement"
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