Better late than never, but here's the way it works with CPUs....
Simply put, you're adding more cores, so it will eat more power and make more heat WHEN RUNNING FULL OUT. When you're running a very low load on it, it will hardly use any power and produce virtually no heat, so the situation where you are OK with the X2, i.e. watching a movie or something, it will STILL be silent. When you're doing something really intense, then, if you LET it, it will ramp up speed and get a bit noisy.
Think of it like this;
If you have a car, you will notice that full out at, say, 5000 rpm, then it will be really loud. When you're cruising at 2000 rpm, you can hardly hear the engine at all.
@Thatguy: what are you trying to prove by overclocking with air cooling? That you can make your computer sound like a vacuum cleaner without setting it on fire? You didn't say anything that supports the OEM cooler actually being decent. IT IS STILL A PIECE OF CRAP and it still makes a NASTY noise. A good heat sink with a large and slow fan can cool the CPU *better* while remaining SILENT. Even overclocked.
Simply put, you're adding more cores, so it will eat more power and make more heat WHEN RUNNING FULL OUT. When you're running a very low load on it, it will hardly use any power and produce virtually no heat, so the situation where you are OK with the X2, i.e. watching a movie or something, it will STILL be silent. When you're doing something really intense, then, if you LET it, it will ramp up speed and get a bit noisy.
Think of it like this;
If you have a car, you will notice that full out at, say, 5000 rpm, then it will be really loud. When you're cruising at 2000 rpm, you can hardly hear the engine at all.
@Thatguy: what are you trying to prove by overclocking with air cooling? That you can make your computer sound like a vacuum cleaner without setting it on fire? You didn't say anything that supports the OEM cooler actually being decent. IT IS STILL A PIECE OF CRAP and it still makes a NASTY noise. A good heat sink with a large and slow fan can cool the CPU *better* while remaining SILENT. Even overclocked.
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