Re: [NTLK] Bad guys use PCs (water cooled OT thread)

From: Norman Palardy (palardyn_at_shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 12 2004 - 12:10:02 PST


On Feb 12, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Chris Edwards wrote:

> Hi, I cannot believe a pc chip needs all that kit,i'v seen motorbikes
> with smaller rads! i missclocked my 233 beige g3, like 866!!! at was
> stable and using powerlogix software it kept below 34c I backed it off
> to 466 to preserve (burning candles at both ends) it is my daughters
> and her sims run for hours (days) without a hitch.
> Chris
> England

The article at http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/02q2/ppc970/ppc970-1.html
shows that a PPC 970 at 1.8 GHz draws about 2/3 the watts that a P4 2.8
Ghz chip does.

A lot of these watts turn into heat; so the Pentium generates more heat.

As clock rates have gone up, the wattage consumptions have as well and
I think the Intel chips dissipate significantly more heat now per GHz
than they used to. The P IV HT EE consumes something like 100 watts,
again a lot of this turning in to heat.

So, you need a lot of coolling

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