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It would be easy for Intel to make the a CPU that never throttled down, they would just have to clock the CPU low enough that it would never run into thermal pr
by Symmetry 8y ago
It would be easy for Intel to make the a CPU that never throttled down, they would just have to clock the CPU low enough that it would never run into thermal problems no matter how much load the CPU was experiencing. But then they'd be much worse for everybody's use case except maybe CPU reviewers.
Changing the clock speed based on thermal headroom is really hard to do well but Intel does it well and most other chip-makers are trying to duplicate Intel. This is really the opposite of those old chips that would sometimes burst into flame because a modern CPU which throttles based on temperature will never burst into flame even if you remove the heat sink and put it in a 150 degree over.