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Technology & Information / Re: Ordered a new computer
« on: April 27, 2018, 04:20:35 PM »
It sounds like y'all are arguing over different parts of the same thing.
Parsifal, Pete, and Rushy sound like they're saying "TDP is electrical power that's being converted to heat" which is accurate. The CPU won't generate any watts of heat without electrical power and it will need to draw at least the amount of power needed to produce the heat it outputs.
Thork is saying that the CPU is pulling more than the heat generated (which is also true), but where he's wrong is the energy it's pulling isn't stored in the CPU. It just passes through. Like, unless I'm mistaken, a CPU isn't going to store a charge inside itself then release that charge to the motherboard to send a signal to read RAM. It'll simply have a path of electrical charge that leads from the motherboard's BUS through the CPU and out to the RAM.
I would personally ony count the electrical power the CPU uses for computation within itself, not what essentially passes through after a calculation.
Of course, having almost no background in microprocessor architecture and engineering, I could be wrong about the above.
Parsifal, Pete, and Rushy sound like they're saying "TDP is electrical power that's being converted to heat" which is accurate. The CPU won't generate any watts of heat without electrical power and it will need to draw at least the amount of power needed to produce the heat it outputs.
Thork is saying that the CPU is pulling more than the heat generated (which is also true), but where he's wrong is the energy it's pulling isn't stored in the CPU. It just passes through. Like, unless I'm mistaken, a CPU isn't going to store a charge inside itself then release that charge to the motherboard to send a signal to read RAM. It'll simply have a path of electrical charge that leads from the motherboard's BUS through the CPU and out to the RAM.
I would personally ony count the electrical power the CPU uses for computation within itself, not what essentially passes through after a calculation.
Of course, having almost no background in microprocessor architecture and engineering, I could be wrong about the above.