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Originally posted by pHaestus
Nope. I have a feeling that the whole concept of "heat watt calculators" are missing the boat. Ever had Prime95 crash due to aggressive memory timing? I have. The power that your CPU is capable of producing under 100% software load is influenced by other components. So if you set a CPU to say a low multiplier and a really high FSB, you may change the heat load under programs like Prime95 by changing memory bandwidth. Interesting questions, but difficult to test/prove. Here are some numbers from my diode reader while idling via WPCredit CPUHLT:
See that there's still a regular oscillation in CPU temp? No such thing as 100% idle. Not so sure there is 100% load either. Such is the challenge of having monitoring equipment that is decent (but still perhaps not accurate).
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Hum... Did you consider that it may be a full load anyways? I mean, maybe that's how the CPU heat actually comes! Also, I seem to remember that the internal diode is capable of reading temp changes up to 40 deg C per second. It might be interesting to run this test at a higher frequency (than 4 Hz), but I'm not sure that the diode reader can handle it.
What's "External 1" and "External 2"