Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
Been using computers since the 8088. I do not recall this ever being a problem outside of the already mentioned “if you remove the cooler” AMD CPUs of the mid-2000s or so iirc. If you remove the cooler from any CPU that comes with a stock cooler you’re going to have a bad day though.
Yeh this tracks with my never having really heard of it, but I wonder why though. It seems logical that a mass market product would have a few people that didn’t understand its limitations and you’d think if it was possible to just keep getting hotter until the cooler is overwhelmed, that that would happen more than a few times to people.