Quote Originally Posted by Sentential View Post
You point about power draw is very valid. However what you fail to note is that there is a difference between power draw and heat dissipation. Simply because you make a chip with a low wattage count does not gaurntee that it will not spew all of the power as heat disspation due to leakage.

Phenom = High Power Draw + SSDOI = Low Leakage = Low Temps
i7 = Lower Power Draw + High K = High Leakage = High Temps

Also you need to factor that Intel and AMD historically measure TDP differently. One is theoritcal TDP max (AMD) the other is normal operating enviroment (Intel)
In a CPU power is used for 2 things. 1 is radiation. 2 is heat. And lets agree first that any radiation is so tiny its useless to count. Everything else is heat.

You dont pump 100W into a CPU and have say some 50W go somewhere else and 50W gets turned into heat.

100W power=100W heat in a CPU.