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Namesareapain
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Namesareapain
8y ago
BS! All modern chips do not thermally throttle! Only ones in systems that have not been designed correctly! The fact that the Aero x15 he tested with the 2.2Ghz base clock 6 core i7 can all core boost to 3.1Ghz in the same workload that bri
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Namesareapain
8y ago
I am not sure why you are referring to Linux (macos kernel is XNU), but the firmware of the chip is in charge of controlling the CPU clockspeed and the only reason it is hitting this limiter is because the CPU does not have correct cooling,