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Originally Posted by Cathar
. . . . Thin BP blocks don't offer much in the way of thermal buffering, however, they still offer plenty of time (many minutes) for any thermal protection circuitry to kick in.
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well, yes but not quite
the newer Intel thermal design guides discuss CPU heat sensor controlled fans (they are coming);
and make the point clearly that NO fan implementation can respond appropriately to thermal spikes as they occur too quickly
the thermal protection (by Intel) cuts in within cycles, literally faster than the temp response of the bp
what is not so clear to me is if the OCing measurement is also being diddled by the cut clock cycles
-> I suspect that Prime (for example) will run w/o errors while being 'temp protected' by cutting clock cycles;
so if clock cycles are being cut, is the indicated operating freq being reduced correspondingly ?
(a rather lot about this that I do NOT know, eh)
anyone messed with this ?
pHaestus - did we not discuss something about this some months ago ?