Quote Originally Posted by kimandsally View Post
A Barton 2500 overclocked to 2700MHz with 2.0v is 148 Watts

A B3 Quad 2400 overclocked to 3600MHz with 1.4v is 198 Watts

I hope not to cause arguments but I thought this had to be shown.

The Barton would be pretty good to do 2700 and 2v is quite high I think, where the Quad clocked to 3.6MHZ is very average with VERY low volts of 1.4

More likely the Quad would go to 3.8 @ 1.6v which would be 272 Watts

That's why they take a bit of cooling.

This is only here to maybe help show why and not put forward as an argument just some plain easy mathematical facts.
How do you work this out?

My C2D E6550 2.33ghz is running at 3.514ghz at 1.36v, so whats that in watts??