Stands to reason a beast of a heatsink or cooling system may complement this undervolting (thermal throttling) situation too. Not sure what's practical in that for a laptop outside of what you're doing already. Have never really checked what methods of stepping up heat dissipation on laptops are being used. People with 6 fans and a liquid cooled system on a desktop pc. Such has always seemed excessive to me, well out of my league. Things throughout this thread taught or clarified a lot of cpu-core related things for me too. Thanks guys ...Intel is apparently behind this Clear OS distro and all the patchery they're applying to the Linux kernel is apparently causing real improvements in performance. Compared to others ... Considering Intel's been, still is the premiere cpu manufacturing people in the world, pretty much since there's been cpu(s)am sure they've got people with knowledge unequaled on the subject, other technology too. Still AMD's people must not be slouches either, they've been holding their own and staying competitive with a much larger entity forever themselves and Google Inc same .... Last time I'd bothered checking, was making in excess to 20 billion per/Yr in revenues, no doubt that's increased since then as they're always expanding and absorbing new things. Those kind of resources have to buy some of the top tech talent in the world and even with that, still took quite some time before these "flaws" in Intel's design architecture came to light.
Again I think came to light means, well fellas, didn't think it'd ever happen but we finally got busted, was a good run while it lasted though ... 10-15yrs, damn those pesky software engineers at Google! No worries, in this type of thing the waters so murky/muddy by this point, nobody will ever be able to point a finger, it was a "design flaw" afterall. Oops ... sowwie. Meanwhile xyz-govt/Corp has been spying it's booty off or someone's been siphoning off who knows how many gazillions of bucks on the worlds stock markets or whatever else that whole time.
Truthfully all this stuff makes me inherently less trustful of Intel's gear. Though because I prefer doing so (buying older hardware), next system will likely end up being Intel based too. Am not going to raise my nose in the air if come across a 3rd/4th gen i5 or i7 at a good price etc. Will snatch it up and begin tweaking hades out of the system per usual. Every now and then, less so lately, I still try to research the Intel vs AMD situation and see who has what, what's the best thing going on in the chip market. Did so last night ...
Ah this chip from Intel is the best choice in performance ... Has this, has that, these things ... pricetag of only $2,999.
Could put together 10 super-lightspeed space beast systems just for the cost of that chip. Don't believe Intel overly cares about this undervolt affair, still only ever going to be a minority who bothers with it. The base premise just sounds odd and majority of people will stay away. Fiddling around with the current in an electronic component. Yep you just set your mobo so that the chip get's less voltage than the manufacturer sets it up for and whala ... It runs xyz faster because xyz does xyz and the xyz thermal thingy's. Avg person(pc user), errrr yeah, that's great, please step away from my computer now. Yeah ... sounds awesome, stop pushing buttons on my $750 buck computer. YEP ... GREAT, stop touching that!Used to do that to family/friends, come over and absent mindedly be sitting there tweaking settings on their pc's, disabling default services running on windows, that are known security issues etc. Had to curb the impulse to tweak this junk and strictly confine that to stuff they couldn't ever possibly use etc.
