Of what is a processor made up?
Basically one can say that it is composed of a plate of Silicon.
The Silicon, noted If in table periodicals of the elements, at summer discovered scientifically in 1823 by Jons Berzelius Jacob. After oxygen it is the chemical element most abundant on the Earth.
It is today an essential element in electronics because of its characteristics, it is indeed, one of best the semiconductor.
It is contained in quartzose sand (dioxide of silicon, already known since antiquity, silica), and one extracts some in a pure form between 96% and 99.99999% by heating it at very high temperatures (about 1700°c approximately).
However in the use that makes electronics of it, and in particular our use, the silicon extracted from this treatment should not contain more than one impurity for thousand billion (10^12) atom of If
It thus undergoes several treatments, and one obitent of Silicochloroforme.On amalgamates then this Silicochloroform to obtain Silicon bars.
It is of these Silicon bars that one manufactures Wafers of our processors. The manufacture of Wafer is composed of several succésives, hard and expensive stages, from their numbers and their complexities.
All these operations entrainent a margin of error and differences. It is what explains the differences between the series of the processors, and which some of them would be more or less favourable with the overclocking. The differences between Wafers make it possible to work out more or less powerful processors (while taking for base that a faster processor will be more powerful, which in reality will not be true forcing) according to the purity of this one.
- What increases the temperature of a processor?
The first factor which influences the temperature, it is the frequency. As opposed to what one can believe, the fact of increasing the frequency of the processor increases the operating temperature of this one.
To include/understand why, it should be known that the TDP (Thermal Power Design) is calculable thanks to a formula, this formula contains a specific constant to each processor, the coefficient of adjustment.
If one connait the frequency, the tension and the TDP of a processor, one can calculate it.
That is to say:
P: Power to be dissipated
V: The tension
F: The frequency
K: The coefficient of adjustment
The formula to find the coefficient of adjustment.
One can thus deduce from it that:
