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A beefy CPU which quickly hits its thermal limit is pointless.
by Brakenshire 8y ago
A beefy CPU which quickly hits its thermal limit is pointless.
- Retr0spectrum 8y agoI'm not disagreeing with that.
- Brakenshire 8y agoThat often seems to be the case with ultrabook type laptops. They try to charge $100 more for a CPU you can only use for 2 minutes.
- ska 8y agoIt's true, beefy CPUs and laptops have some conflicting design goals.
- derekp7 8y agoThere are a fair number of tasks that can stress the CPU for short periods of time. But If I can turn an occasional 10 second task into a 3 second task, that is where a CPU that can throttle up temporarily really helps (things like generating crypto keys, or some short-burst javascript on some web sites). But for video transcoding that may take 3 hours, that's something I would do on a remote server anyway.