Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
So where does the power used go? Conservation of energy dictates it must go somewhere.
It doesnt "go" anywhere. It stays within the circuit. The heat that people are seeing is mostly related to electromigration, ie current jumping from more than one level/circuit of the chip which causes resistance and that resistance is turned into heat

That is why i7s are not too bad at lower frequencies but get RED hot at higher ones. Its the same thing that got Netburst into trouble a couple years ago