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Intel Releases "Fastest Chip Ever"
mao che minh writes "From News Factor Network: Intel has released the world's fastest chip ever. The new P4 runs at 3.06GHz, at 3 billion cycles per second. Man, and I'm still squeezing the last bit of life out of my Pentium 233!" Tom's Hardware already has a review up about it, and it looks to live up to most of the hype.
I wonder how well this chip would do overclocked, as it's the first chip to rely on hyperthreading.
If you overclock the chip I would assume the results would be pretty much in-line with what you could expect to see from any other chip, but I do see the possibility that the hyperthreading (which is supposed to make the chip perform roughly 25% better) could cause the overclocking to give an even larger increase in performance, or it might cause the overclocking to give a smaller performance gain that would be expected.
Either way hyperthreading is an idea whose time has come.
There is more to it than that. A watt is a Joule per second and the specific heat capacity of water, if I remember correctly from chem class, is 4.2 J/(kg*kelvin).
So the rise in temperature of the water would be dependent on the volume of water and the rate of heat loss to the surroundings (which would be expressed by a differential equation, btw, since the temperature of the water relative to the surroundings would also be changing.)
The way I see it, you can't just say that H20 boils at ____ watts.