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More info?)
One could buy the Opteron 240 EE chips if they are worried about heat.
The EE chips are only 30 watts, but are not cheap.
Tony Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:33:59 GMT, "Jack Ustinov" <jacko@silver.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >Has anyone else noticed that the 64 bit Opteron CPU's emmit a lot of heat?
> >Is this normal? I have a dual Opteron board with dual Opterons.
>
> A lot of heat relative to what? Compared to an old Pentium, hell yeah
> they pump out a lot of heat. Compared to the latest P4 and Xeon chips
> they are actually quite cool running.
>
> By most accounts the Opteron 240 should pump out somewhere around 60W
> of heat when going full-out. That is a fair bit of power (just try
> touching a 60W light bulb when it's turned on sometime!), but
> certainly not unreasonable.
>
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> Tony Hill
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