Question: Is a K6 ice-cold while running?
With more than 10W been dissipated, Time Traveler would have to agree with Paul that it would not be considered as 'ice-cold' by normal standards.
Question: Does Time Traveler have this NDA routine from AMD to check out worst-case power dissipation?
No, Time Traveler does not have these programs. All motherboards designed so far have been designed to the Intel spec, not AMD's, nor National's.
Question: Has Time Traveler ever read some Intel spec?
Yes, Time Traveler has. Again, Time Traveler would never give away any of Time Traveler's customers' confidential information, only published ones.
Question: Does Intel have a test to exercise the worst power conditions?
Time Traveler does not know. Whether your assumption of Intel hand-waving the spec is right or wrong, Time Traveler does not know either. But in the business of mass-production, the more lenient the spec is, the more finished goods you can deliver, the fewer the rejects go in the trashcan. A lot of this is a business decision not a pure engineering one. That is how some company producing tens of million of parts can make a lot of money at a very good profit margin.
Time Traveler
Ps. About the real issue here,
With that IR gun, you can measure the temperature of the case. By measuring the supply voltages and currents into the CPU, you can calculate how much power is dissipated. Multiplying this wattage by the thermal coefficient of junction to case, you can figure out how much higher the temperature of the die is than the case. There you have it --- the junction temperature.
Time Traveler hopes this is all common sense to you, Ali.
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