I understand overall power consumption will go up...I was thinking more specifically of just the cpu, Leakage of current in the cpu increases with increased voltage and higher temperatures, this in turn leads to increased power consumption and heat production in the cpu.
I was just hoping that the already low temps I'm operating at will have reduced the cpu's power consumption to a level that the pelt I've bought can deal with as Drew was suggesting the pelt may be a little under powered to cool the cpu.....but it's something I'm just going to have to try to know for sure.
There you go...just found a graph of what I'm talking about with the 3770k, other sites are quoting a power draw of 240watt for the cpu at 4.5GHz under ambient cooling, so by reducing the temp to +30c the power draw is reduced by 50% to 115w...If this translates to the quoted psu calculator power usage for my Q6600 of 200w at its current oc and voltage then it should only be drawing about 100w at my current loaded temp of +30c and be well with in the pelts ability...I'm actually hoping to hit -10c loaded not +30c as that's my current temp...which will only make it more likely that the pelt will cope fine.
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And here's a graph for overclocked prestler which shows similar results, so it's not just an Ivybridge characteristic.
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Edited by technogiant - 7/15/12 at 3:25am
I was just hoping that the already low temps I'm operating at will have reduced the cpu's power consumption to a level that the pelt I've bought can deal with as Drew was suggesting the pelt may be a little under powered to cool the cpu.....but it's something I'm just going to have to try to know for sure.
There you go...just found a graph of what I'm talking about with the 3770k, other sites are quoting a power draw of 240watt for the cpu at 4.5GHz under ambient cooling, so by reducing the temp to +30c the power draw is reduced by 50% to 115w...If this translates to the quoted psu calculator power usage for my Q6600 of 200w at its current oc and voltage then it should only be drawing about 100w at my current loaded temp of +30c and be well with in the pelts ability...I'm actually hoping to hit -10c loaded not +30c as that's my current temp...which will only make it more likely that the pelt will cope fine.
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And here's a graph for overclocked prestler which shows similar results, so it's not just an Ivybridge characteristic.
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Edited by technogiant - 7/15/12 at 3:25am
