Quote Originally Posted by biohead View Post
fail. indeed the eventual energy output will be in the form of heat because energy isn't stored in the system (the computer). but you should expand your thesaurus to be able to be more explanatory, because "sets of bits" doesn't quite cut it.
So I should start writing about how the signals from the FPU to L2 cache generate heat and as the FPU is busy, the TLB is idling and drawing no power etc? To put it short, CPU gets set of bits and translates it to another set of bits. Sure, it doesn't work exactly like that in practise but thats how to simplify it.

And who was saying that converting something to something else takes no energy? Excactly, no one. Bringing those arguments to the debate have no value other than trying to confuse others. If that is the last resort, then someone should lock the thread.

And still, the question remains: If it does not come out as heat, then what does it come out as? And no energy is being stored, right?