Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S...
by garrettgrimsley on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:44PM
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Running Folding@Home, SETI@Home, Prime95, and other CPU intensive applications requires much more power than simply running idle. For example, I have a processor that when running Prime95 will use more than double the idle load wattage. [0]
[0] http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/04/27/amd-phenom-...