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It's a common real-world issue that someone buys the "faster" CPU option in a laptop and finds it runs slower than their coworker's because the thermal design a
by saltcured 9y ago
It's a common real-world issue that someone buys the "faster" CPU option in a laptop and finds it runs slower than their coworker's because the thermal design and/or quality of assembly causes it to overheat and throttle.
With many systems, turbo is only a temporary burst benefit for a lightly loaded system. Many server or HPC systems would intentionally disable turbo to have consistent sustained throughput.
- onli 9y agoDefinitely. But this is not a laptop with cooling issues, in this case we are talking about a professional benchmark setup. If cooling was an issue during this, it would just add an other negative point to the bunch of irregularities in this review.