• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    18 days ago

    Well, search engines really have gotten useless. But basically modern processors can go as powerful as the temperature headroom allows, called Dynamic Temperature Management. Bad cooling solution = less power from same CPU. Same for GPU, although realized in different ways. They don’t overheat.

    Ok, admitelly, mainboard vendors can mess that up via default settings.

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      18 days ago

      Ah yeah, for that definition of overheating you’re entirely right; I’m pretty sure all modern CPUs throttle before reaching dangerous temperatures. I was considering overheating as reaching the temperatures where it has to throttle, since that’s when you see the performance hit.