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[Bob Zumbrunnen]

That reminds me of a question a friend and I have disagreed about for years. Perhaps this belongs on another thread, but you reminded me here, so I'm asking here.

I maintain that the more "work" a computer is made to do, the hotter the CPU gets. That, for example, the CPU in the site's SQL box is currently a lot hotter than the one in my identical workstation.

He maintains that in the digital world work does not create heat.

Who's right?

What started this debate for us is that I once had a machine that would work just fine as long as the workload was light, but that if I ever really pounded it, would lock up, and wouldn't boot back up until it'd been allowed to "rest" for a while.