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Cooling is probably less of a problem than many people think. Modern cpus are (or rather would be) very efficient, if you don't push them to the very end of the
by bmicraft 4y ago
Cooling is probably less of a problem than many people think. Modern cpus are (or rather would be) very efficient, if you don't push them to the very end of their frequency-power bathtub curve, but the latest generations of desktop cpus are basically stock overclocked. They can achieve 80% of their performance at 40% the power. That basically means you could double performance by 2.5x-ing silicon for the same power/heat.
- mjevans 4y agoSounds exactly like the giant core count server chips; well they're still a little overclocked but not nearly as much. A major issue is the vast quantity of state machine dependent programs, like videogame servers, more simply coded data processing generally. Games and other simulations generally are often single threaded since they're engineered as iterative processes rather than parallel expressions due to possible conflicts in state propagation.