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Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by jtriangle on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:15PM (#39486188)
There's a side benefit to this as well, your cooling solution is more effective at 90C than it is at 40C, you know, highschool physics, deltaT and all that.
Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by wtallis on Friday February 23, 2024 @09:23PM (#39488556)
That also comes with the side effect that the transistors are leakier at high temperature, leading to higher power for the same performance as compared with operating at a lower temperature. This effect is significant: in mobile systems it can easily be the case that turning on a fan (or speeding it up) leads to a net decrease in power consumption because the power saved by making the chip less leaky is more than the power spent running the fan.