> Nah, it's more the Intel ones that tend to run hot.
>
> At least, AMDs haven't run hot since the end of the Athlon XP days-- and they were
> still outclassed in heat generation by Intel, where the top end P4s would thermally
> throttle if the heatsink and gunk weren't precisely perfect.
The C2Ds ran a lot cooler, and the Sandy Bridges idle at 1.6 GHz when you aren't running anything intense. Mine, which is overclocked to 4.8 GHz when it needs it, idles less than 10 degrees above ambient when I'm reading email and browsing web sites and that sort of thing. And that's on air cooling. It's kind of amazing - Intel made heavily overclocked rigs perfectly livable for non-gaming use with that change 
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