QUOTE(RIGmaster @ Aug 3 2006, 10:27 AM)
It is very important to never let your Processor reach 50 celcius once

thats my Key

Ah .... electron is such a cute fellow but also create such problem when migration and tunneling happens
No way to prevent a Component for not ROSAK at all . Thats why Superconductor is so important ... The current flow without Resistance . Since no resistance , no work against the unwanted force and hence no heat being dessipated and hence no thing will be delocalised

The Most stable structure is still Subatomic Particle

It form from the first universe start with all the 6 Quarks , electron , positron , neutrino and anti neutrino . Things never change since then .
Haha , unless you can break quarks into even smaller particle

First of all heat isn't related, since it just damages the physical lattice and increases environment reaction rates.
Problems due to electron flow is called electromigration, as you raise the voltage, the force behind and electron continues to grow with it, the electron is already moving at C which is as fast as the laws of physics allow for, but then it doesn't stop it increasing it's kenetic energy, and that kenetic energy will eventually thin out and break those mircoscopic traces.
Resistance is another point, semiconductors require resistance to operate. It's by the laws of physics that for any action, some energy must be put it, so the switching of a transistor (which uses heat or energy to allow the source and drain to connect) must have resistance. Generally it's the use of logic, good placement, less redundancy, higher IPC and better processes that allow for less heat. Since generally all transistors are the same and switch using the same amount of energy, it's just a problem of needed switching and other factors.
Particles do not break unless you can overcome the electrostatic forces detailed in Coloumb's law and the strong force (one of the 4 fundemental forces) that binds the atoms together. There is decay, but the amount of time it takes for such particles to decay is insanely long
QUOTE(lichyetan @ Aug 4 2006, 01:53 AM)
there are some theory frm electronics which increase the voltage will make the proc die faster even with good cooling, i dunno hw to explain though but it seems related to atoms... and also all proc have a lifespan, overclock too high will greatly reduce the lifespan...
Generally if kept within the confines of the process limitations, procs can survive a very long time. Semiconductor based OPAMPs already have an MTBF of 10^12 hours and that's damned long lol. Same goes generally with processors, unless you take them far past their process specifications (Eg; Intel 90nm, AMD 90nm SOI, TSMC 80nm)
This post has been edited by empire23: Aug 4 2006, 04:06 AM