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Originally posted by Joe
the amount of heat reduction is MINIMAL. look at the .25 to .18um core shrink... that was supposed to be the end-all be-all for cooling... and what do you know, a few months after they .18um shrink we are back at the same heatlevels. Give it a few months we will be right back where we were before.
Heat densities keep rising with every core shrink.
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The wattage is decreasing so heat will follow, but yes you are correct to a point. The higher the mhz per a core the hotter it will get as it will use more wattage. The XP1600+ at 1400mhz was about 15% cooler than my T-Bird1400 at 1400mhz, but now that the XP is up to 2000+ at 1670mhz the temps are right back up there where the T-Bird1400 was.
Even though the densities are decreasing the wattages used are also decreasing so it really cancels each other out.
BUT it will come to a point that the wattage will be so low it will not produce that much heat even at the peak of a certain core. I don't think this will happen utill they get well below .13 microns though. By then they will probably have some revolutionary core out anyway.
