Its common in hardware enthusiast forums and discussion now when there is a performance problem for there to be 2 initial questions. The first is regards to clo

Its common in hardware enthusiast forums and discussion now when there is a performance problem for there to be 2 initial questions. The first is regards to clock speed and the second is temperature. Its really common for clock throttling to be the underlying cause of performance problems on today's systems and temperature is also the number one cause. But the second major cause, representing about 30% of cases is software/firmware bugs in the drivers for the graphics card or the Windows scheduler doing odd things for the CPU under a particular workload. As more of the performance of components becomes dependent on boosting and clock increasing in order to save power the more we are seeing inconsistent behaviour and problems with the implementations.