No doubt you put it in your PC, booted up and then ran some Quake3 benchmarks to see how much faster this CPU is as compared to your older one. If you re a regular hardware review-site visitor, you probably did a couple of 3Dmark2000 runs just to see how your machine stacks up to others at the MadOnion website. Keep reading . A little theory A CPU s temperature is based entirely on one factor it s load. As soon as you launch a game or application, the increased load means that a processor has to work harder, and so in an attempt to cope with the increased load the CPU ramps up it s operations and consumes more power, making it a lot hotter in the process.
Power is consumed in the form of voltage and CPU current.
In computers, this energy is transformed into heat. This way of thinking has borne fruit in laptop and PDA processors indeed, most mobile users are familiar with the technology. At that time, I had an old Pentium 166 on a motherboard that didn t support CPU-temperature monitoring. I ran the program, but unable to accurately measure any decrease in temperature I uninstalled the software and saved it on a floppy, which later landed at the bottom of my computer drawer. I then remembered Rain, and wondered how it would affect heat dissipation on this new processor.