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Why does the heat production increase as the clockrate of a CPU increases?

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Mar 15, 20264687 views
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The whole multi-core debate got me thinking. It's much easier to produce two cores (in one package) then speeding up one core by a factor of two. Why exactly is this? I googled a bit, but found mostly very imprecise answers from over clocking boards which do not explain the underlying Physics. The …

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Each time the clock ticks you're charging or discharging a bunch of capacitors. The energy for charging a capacitor is: Where is the capacitance and is the voltage to which it was charged. If your frequency is , then you have cycles per second, and …

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