I’m confused. I did some research online, and learned that cpu’s can essentially double has a hotplate, because 99-100% of electricity consumed is turned into heat. how? doesn’t the cpu use energy to make calcuations and render things? I’m real confused.
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Everything turns into heat in the end. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It can only be converted.
What is a calculation of a CPU? It’s just some electricity moving around a wire. If your CPU hadn’t had any resistance you could do calculations at almost no electricity cost. But the reason why your CPU “consumes” electricity is that the wires have resistance. Meaning they heat up when electricity passes through.
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