have you ever come across the term thermal throttling when doing research
to buy a new laptop or other device I mean it sounds kind of cool right like
yeah when this you know phone gets all thermal up in here you can crank that
throttle all fast look no that's not it thermal throttling
is a great technology but if you're experiencing it in most cases there is
something wrong with your device its design or the conditions in which you're
using it I'll EXP explain what it is in a moment but first history lesson time
in the old days you know before gunnam style Justin Bieber and much more
importantly than either of those other two things the Pentium 3 1 GHz with
speedstep technology computer processors operated at one frequency and one
frequency only with the power consumption and heat output that came
along with that if you didn't put a heat sink on it or a cooling fan failed in
your system it could heat up so much that it would literally burn burn itself
to death it wasn't all bad though out of
this negative characteristic of old PC stuff came the popular past time of
Geeks with obsolete Hardware creating blog posts and videos about cooking eggs
and other food items on their CPUs so what the heck happened to that well
today's microprocessors not just the ones in your computer but the ones in
your phone or other devices as well are super smart they are monitoring their
temperature and power use hundreds of times per second and adjusting their
performance so the frequency that they run at on the fly with features like
Intel speed step and NVIDIA GPU boost that means that if the Chip's power
consumption or in the case of thermal throttling temperature gets too high it
will simply throttle back its performance and prevent itself from
dying a quick and potentially delicious
death now I mentioned that in most cases you shouldn't observe thermal throttling
with a device that's functioning correctly but this isn't always true
some Thin and light laptops and especially some phones are actually
designed to only be able to withstand the heat of let's say the graphics
processor or the central processor being fully utilized at one time and if you
hit both of them at the same time one or both will thermal throttle to keep the
temperatures of your device under control because higher temperatures are
a unpleasant for the user's hand and and
be detrimental to the short and long-term lifespan of the components
inside the phone especially the battery
so in these cases thermal throttling is a way to preserve some functionality
during heavy use in ultra thin compact devices rather than allowing the device
to just shut down entirely in order to
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