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I have hardly, if ever, seen a CPU die, but I agree on the point of power. I have a ~2007 MacPro (2 Quad-core Xeon CPUs, 16 GB RAM) I was lucky enough to buy of
by krylon 11y ago
I have hardly, if ever, seen a CPU die, but I agree on the point of power. I have a ~2007 MacPro (2 Quad-core Xeon CPUs, 16 GB RAM) I was lucky enough to buy off a friend for cheap.
Performance-wise, if the workload can be spread across all the cores, it is ... not too slow. ;-) But I can tell if that thing is on or not by the room temperature, because that thing gets hot when it is busy. It gets hot, in fact, when it is idle, too, so I mostly keep it asleep and only wake it up for short sprints of activity, like encoding a video or something.
Well, actually, the MacPro doesn't get hot itself, because it has lots and lots of fans, but the rest of the room does.
So it is nice to own such a powerful machine, very, very nice, but, yes, more recent machines tend to get more efficient, evergy-wise.
- zerd 11y agoNever seen a cpu die? It looks awesome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(integrated_circuit)#/media/File:Intel_Xeon_E7440_open_die_at_heat_spreader.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_(integrated_circuit)#/medi...
- krylon 11y agoI a know what a die is and what it looks like. ;-) Athlon XP CPUs used to have a naked die, and one could kill them when mounting a heatspreader - a friend of mine did, once. Just in case I was being unclear: I meant the verb "die", as in "to give up the ghost". More likely, though, you couldn't resist the pun... ;-)