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I had the same experience, and it's incredibly frustrating -- both when you don't know about thermal throttling and when you do. I'd do something that caused h
by gregmac 4y ago
I had the same experience, and it's incredibly frustrating -- both when you don't know about thermal throttling and when you do.
I'd do something that caused high load, and it would be briefly fast then suddenly everything would get sluggish. I naively thought this was normal ("under load") until some time I was doing the same workload on a similar-spec desktop CPU and it didn't happen. In trying to discovery why is when I first learned about thermal throttling.
- asdff 4y agoAt least with windows you can turn off turboboost and other such features that basically temporarily overclock the cpu beyond what the thermals are designed for evidently. I had a late model intel mac that was horrible for this. Games would become unplayable because you'd have 30 seconds of reasonable FPS followed by 5 seconds of terrible awful drops then right back to reasonable fps. My 2012 era mac was better in this sense because the thermal design allowed the CPU to go all out at room temp, no throttling at all and consistent fps from the game (albeit low because of integrated graphics, but consistent nonetheless which is at least playable).