It's a 5th generation core i7 in the Intel NUC. It's been off the market for four years and the thermal issues were known and addressed in the intervening years

It's a 5th generation core i7 in the Intel NUC. It's been off the market for four years and the thermal issues were known and addressed in the intervening years to the best of my understanding. I'm just saying that linux does not do a great job of gracefully limiting CPU power to avoid a lower BIOS level limiter kicking in and performing worse than if it just throttled down a bit earlier.