Dr.EM
New Member
Hi. I was wondering about this, thought mabye some of you might understand it better. Basically, I wondred why it is that a CPU should get hot. As far as I knew, it dealt with 0 and 1 logic signals, so why should it get hot. If the transistors are either on or off, the power consumtion should be low? And the signals, they arn't really powering anything are they, they are just signals. Is it just that there are so many little transistors that the combined heat given off is very high? I understand why power amplifiers get hot, because they send large currents out, and the in most types, the output transistors are not saturated, so they need to dissapate the heat generated by thier resistance. Anyone understand this better :?