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amd hotter then Pent?

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kalex2

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HI All, I was wondering what to do? I have been a huge AMD fan for the last several years. I am currently overclocking a 2500 and also a 2100. And now I am working from home, and my room gets quite warmer than any other room. I have turned them down to run at there normal clockings and it is still really hot in the room. I now only have one pc on at a time. But if I switched up to running Intel I have heard they don't produce as much heat as AMD?
 
It's true that they generally produce more heat than pentium 4's (not more than the new prescott cores, I heard), but I seriously don't think it would be a big enough difference to make a significant change to your room temperature. A PC produces a significant amount of heat altogether, and only a portion comes from the CPU. The power supply tends to produce a lot, and sometimes the chipset on the motherboard as well as graphics cards. CRT monitors create a very large amount of heat. Laser printers do as well. A computer room naturally gets hot easily, so you need to have some better ventilation. Open a window if you have any, and open the door to your room. Maybe put a fan in there as well.
 
Durons: pretty cool, all of 'em.
Thunderbirds: HOT HOT HOT. Eclipsed by P4s around the 2.8GHz mark.
Athlon XPs (all): cooler than P4s.
Palominos: hottest Athlon XPs (Bartons can match or beat them at full bore, though)
TBreds: cooler, but high idle.
Bartons: high idle temps, but not as bad as previous ones, and pretty cools load temps, considering the speeds.
Northwood P4s and Athlon XPs are, however, very close. The old Thunderbird Athlons got them the bad rep, but it has been dealt with for a long time. P4s w/ HT and the new Prescotts can get extremely hot compared to any Athlon or Athlon64.

If your room is getting hot from it...get some circulation. Between the CPU and video card, computers get hot. Wattage used corresponds almost directly into heat. That heat is dissipated into the air. Any modern PC with some computational strength is going to use a fair bit of energy, and convert much of it to heat.

Now, if they would finally get desktop Pentium-Ms, then the situation would change quote a bit--at full load, you'd have 1/3 or 1/4, maybe even 1/5 for the Prescott 3.4GHz, CPU power use during load.
 
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