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Hi, Wolfgang,
1. Power factor is the correct term. Due to transmission line effects the current leads the voltage, and that error produces the heating effect that varies with directly with speed and line length. I am a test specialist for integrated circuits. I do use my terms correctly.
2. All ram moves are block moves with recent processors. This is due to the management of cache memory which may be two levels deep on current microprocessors.
3. I believe I did state that hardware was a significant cause of power demand. I was illustrating the need for additional headroom on the supply to deal with the surges that occur during electronics data state changes.
No one here needs to believe any of this, because in most cases the participants will order prebuilt systems which will have properly sized supplies to deal with the board demands. Generally the designers build and test the systems with memory demands that are much greater than as you point out the average demand may be.
The gentleman here is building a high end system. 4 processors (two CPU's) is a lot of processing power. Thus it is reasonable to expect that the system may be running at high capacity, thus more block moves and greater throughput demands on the hardware.
Regards,
Les H
