re cpu temperature vs cpu activity in article apr ucc su oz au montuno physics su oz au lino montuno writes this may be a very naive question but is there any basis for the claim that a cpu will get hotter when a computationally intensive job is running my friend claims that there will be little difference in the temperature of an idle cpu and a cpu running a computationally intensive job it first depends on what an idle cpu is doing i m not sure about dos but many multitasking oss have an loop like this loop is there anything to do yes do it goto loop no goto loop the cpu is not doing any work but it is still processing instructions it will also respond to interupts lino montuno guy guy dawson hoskyns group plc guyd hoskyns co uk tel hoskyns uk guyd austin ibm com tel ibm austin usa
