[citation][nom]lilltroll[/nom]warmon6 :jprahman, you do know that the 95W TDP is how much watts of heat a cpu and/or a gpu will release and not how much it consumes Both the GTX 580 and the core i7's can consume more watts than there TDP's are. (not all the energy thats consumed by the hardware is lost as heat)Not all, just 99.9%.So what do you expect the rest of the energy to emit like, Gravity waves? Mass? Maybe a hidden Zero-point energy field or a new virtual particle??[/citation]
??? i dont seam to understand the question being ask.... Are you meaning something along the lines of "if it's not all lost as heat, where the rest go?"
Basic analogy i can give is, cpu and gpu's with electricity is like a car engine with gasoline.
You need gasoline to get a car moving, although not all that energy is used to make a car move. Some of that energy is lost as heat. (why we have to have radiator fluid and oil to reduce/remove heat though out the engine.)
Same thing applies to cpu's, gpu's, and anything else the requires some form of energy to function for that matter. There always multiple of energy usage when running. There the function of the object (cpu processing the data) and then there some form of energy lose (cpu giving heat)
If you literally had a cpu give out a TDP 95W (amount of heat giving out) and it consumed only 95W's, that would mean it 100% inefficent. Meaning it shouldn't be working at all as you cant go beyond 100% in either direction.
Now if the cpu consumes 100W's and it hit's the maximum TDP of 95w, it would be 5% efficent on processing your data.
(btw, that 99.9% is not my saying 😉 )