>at the temporal coordinates: 9/6/01 8:54 AM, the entity known as Leonard T.
>Coco at [EMAIL PROTECTED] conveyed the following:
>
>>> If the heatsink is getting hotter, and the total amount of energy put
>>> out by the CPU is constant, then it stands to reason (so I say) that
>>> means the CPU is cooler.
>>>
>>
>> Heat (energy) is not going to flow from a lower temperature to a high
>> temperature (exactly the opposite)- ie if the heatsink is hotter than the
>> CPU is also hotter -likely by more than the difference in heatsink
>> temperatures, since the eff. is less and therefore a higher delta is
>> required to reach equilibrium.
>
>Exactly correct, O thermodynamics wizard! One flaw in the above
>doubly-quoted statement is the presumption that total energy is constant.
Constant at a given clockspeed. I did the testing with the CPU at
its normal 33 MHz, for testing purposes.
Mad Dog
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