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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Your computer is, fundamentally, a bunch of switches that switch states by either having a lot of current flowing through them or very little current flowing through them. Whether there is a lot or a little current are the 1’s and 0’s through which computers encode information.
The thing about having a bunch of current flowing through your chips and the wires connecting them is that it creates electrical resistance. In terms of its impact, electrical resistance is kind of like friction. When I push something along my floor, Some of the energy from me pushing the thing gets lost due to friction and the result is that that energy winds up in the thing I’m pushing and the floor as heat.
So, basically, to constantly have current running through your computer electrical resistance is inevitable and heat is the byproduct.
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