On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 18:33, Jesse Scott wrote: > Since the thermal energy of a one core CPU running P95 is so great how will > a system having a dual core CPU react? Will intel still have the cpu down > throttle?
I suspect you are making possibly unwarrented assumptions there. First, you are assuming that each core in the forthcoming processors will produce at least half as much as the single core in present chips. If each produces less than 50%, and other things being equal (which they may or not be) then the future chips will not take so much power. Second, you are assuming that the cooling arrangements are no better than those specified for current chips. It's possible, though possibly too expensive, to dissipate much more power from a cpu than is commonly done in mass-market machines. The supercomputer manufacturers of yore were specialists in plumbing and air conditioning. Now it's probably unnecessary to go to the extremes that CDC, Cray and IBM used to go to, but there is a great deal more can be done in the cooling area than is presently done. Paul Paul _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
