Thermal Throttling as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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743 words · ~3 min read
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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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