CPU temperature

[viza]

Be aware also, that to explain an eight degree rise in core temperature
the room temperature would not even have to rise by as much as eight
degrees, because the cooler becomes less effective as the temperature
difference decreases (Newton's law).

I was thinking about this on the way home from the pub last night, and
the above is probably wrong. Newton's law only strictly applies to
passive cooling, and a passively cooled system in equilibrium will be a
constant number of degrees hotter than its environment.

 

[Chris H]

OK, so now I don't know when people are being serious or not. Will the
temperature outside in the room really have an effect? I thought the whole
point of CPU cooling was to maintain a constant temp??


Yeah, sorry, I guess it's a bit off-topic... But I reasoned that there'd
be a strong positive correlation between people that program in C and
people that understand general hardware issues.

That would be comp.arch.embedded