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Re: Does heat affect the speed of a CPU?
« on: December 07, 2005, 03:05:44 PM »
Not sure about the PPC family, but some processors have thermal throttling, whereby if the processor gets too hot it doesn't just pack in entirely - it slows down.
Thus, increasing the cooling of the processor will return it to the full speed.
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