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Re:Some MacBook Pro users complain about throttling issues by stefan_ on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:42PM (#17568702)
No, you don't get to blame this on the processor. Modern processors are perfectly capable of operating exactly at the limit of the cooling system they are provided. No worries there. There is no "setpoint" you need to set; the processor ramps up, then sustains.

This is purely a mechanical engineering issue. They haven't designed it properly.

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Re:Some MacBook Pro users complain about throttling issues by tlb on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:47PM (#17568733)
Chips vary considerably in the amount of power they use at a given frequency, as a result of silicon process variations. Consider table 5 in http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/newPapers/16-08/paper.pdf. So even with identical cooling systems, some chips will outperform others.
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Re:Some MacBook Pro users complain about throttling issues by EpicEng on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:07PM (#17571136)
Yet that's all rather irrelevant im context considering that apple controls every aspect of their machines.
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