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Power
and Heat:::...
It
would be perfectly natural to assume that twice the CPU
means twice the heat and twice the power requirements, a
scary proposition for sure. Fortunately the X2 pulls a rabbit
out of a hat on both scores.
Thermal
Design Power weighs in at 110 Watts for the top-dog 4800+
and 95 Watts for the cache-reduced Manchester chips, at
worst just marginally higher than the FX55's 104 Watts and
within the scope for most reasonably specified Socket 939
motherboards. This is in part thanks to the shrink to .09
microns SOI process.
Temperatures
throughout testing remained at perfectly manageable levels,
even when run with both cores flat out and overclocked!
I'd have boosted the voltage a touch too just to turn up
the heat but 1.65V was the upper limit available.
I
was limited to a mere 15MHz overclock on the "Base
Frequency", which meant a moderate hike from 2.4GHz
to 2.58GHz. I'll cover performance at this speed later but
for now here are the temperatures as reported by the included
ASUS AiBooster App.
 
Idle Temperatures - Overclocked
Stressed
naturally means both cores running at full tilt not just
one of them.
 
Full
Load Temperatures - Overclocked
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