Processor power consumption question, error in my calculations?

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This is more of something that came to me rather than a problem that I have, and I thought it'd be more appropriate in here rather than the general hardware subforum.

Ok so I was just looking though my BIOS the other day chacking that my voltages were right and stuff (mainly because I was bored ), and I noticed that I was butting about 1.45v through my cpu (overclocked to 3.5 from 2). Now i didn't think about it at the time, but whilst I was again bored, I suddenly started thinkin about the relationship between power, voltage, and current.

So for example, because it's the only processor with the power consumption I know of, take the Intel Q6600 (the G0 stepping one), which consumes 95W. If the stock volts on that are approximately 1.3v, and the power rating at stock is also 95W, does that not mean that there's something like 73 Amps going through the thing?? (because P=IV, so I=P/V) Because that struck me as a lot, and I know they get hot, but to have that much current going through them they'd surely melt!? (or explode or do something dramatic like that )

Is there something I don't know about the voltage, like is that 1.3v going through each of the little pins on the mobo, meaning that that's 73amps divided by how many little pins there are?

Just struck me as odd, because I don't like the idea of 30+amps going through my CPU lol (E2180)

Cheers guys

 

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P.S. Is that Hyde in Manchester?

Yeaha. Why you live nearby or somethin?

 

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Lol Funny story actually when I was puttin my current spec together, had sort of a shock when I saw the CPU had no pins thought i'd bent them all lol. Had a look at the mobo and realised they do it the other way around nowadays.

About the cpus though, if an overclocked cpu takes around 130watts, that's like as much as or more than a high end graphics card, which is sorta scary when you always hear people asking about if their PSU will be able to cope with the graphics card they're thinking of getitng

Maybe they should take the CPU into consideration as well

 

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but remember when you overclock the processor will get less efficient from a energy point of view. so should draw more amps than you would expect.

So does that mean that those 70+ amps are all going down that seperate 4/8 pin cable? It just seems a bit thin for somethin that is meant to take so much current

 

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Actually, the current is only going down the yellow cables. The black ones are ground.

They must be some pretty expensive low resistance cables lol. I guess that's why you try to spend as much money as possible on your psu though... more money = higher quality