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have you ever come across the term thermal throttling when doing research

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to buy a new laptop or other device I mean it sounds kind of cool right like

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yeah when this you know phone gets all thermal up in here you can crank that

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throttle all fast look no that's not it thermal throttling

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is a great technology but if you're experiencing it in most cases there is

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something wrong with your device its design or the conditions in which you're

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using it I'll EXP explain what it is in a moment but first history lesson time

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in the old days you know before gunnam style Justin Bieber and much more

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importantly than either of those other two things the Pentium 3 1 GHz with

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speedstep technology computer processors operated at one frequency and one

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frequency only with the power consumption and heat output that came

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along with that if you didn't put a heat sink on it or a cooling fan failed in

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your system it could heat up so much that it would literally burn burn itself

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to death it wasn't all bad though out of

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this negative characteristic of old PC stuff came the popular past time of

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Geeks with obsolete Hardware creating blog posts and videos about cooking eggs

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and other food items on their CPUs so what the heck happened to that well

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today's microprocessors not just the ones in your computer but the ones in

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your phone or other devices as well are super smart they are monitoring their

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temperature and power use hundreds of times per second and adjusting their

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performance so the frequency that they run at on the fly with features like

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Intel speed step and NVIDIA GPU boost that means that if the Chip's power

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consumption or in the case of thermal throttling temperature gets too high it

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will simply throttle back its performance and prevent itself from

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dying a quick and potentially delicious

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death now I mentioned that in most cases you shouldn't observe thermal throttling

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with a device that's functioning correctly but this isn't always true

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some Thin and light laptops and especially some phones are actually

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designed to only be able to withstand the heat of let's say the graphics

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processor or the central processor being fully utilized at one time and if you

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hit both of them at the same time one or both will thermal throttle to keep the

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temperatures of your device under control because higher temperatures are

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a unpleasant for the user's hand and and

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be detrimental to the short and long-term lifespan of the components

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inside the phone especially the battery

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so in these cases thermal throttling is a way to preserve some functionality

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during heavy use in ultra thin compact devices rather than allowing the device

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to just shut down entirely in order to

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