What is thermal throttling?

[Vishvas Sudarshan]

Hello guys!!

 

What is meant by thermal throttling?

[AresKrieger]

Components have temperature limits before they take potential damage, thermal throttling is when a component approaches this limit and then lowers usage/clock speed to lower the temperatures to safer levels

[GeorgeKellow]

Where your cpu or gpu turns down t he usage in order not to kill its self 

[AlwaysFSX]

[SeamusFrederick]

In a nutshell it's a tactic designed to prevent unwanted self-destruction in a PC component.

[Tech Inquisition]

When you are trying to hard to solve a problem and start sweating... You become less effective... Same concept...

[ThinkWithPortals]

26 minutes ago, Vishvas Sudarshan said:

Hello guys!!

 

What is meant by thermal throttling?

When a computer component (eg. a CPU or a graphics card) detects that it is becoming dangerously hot it will turn down it's clockspeed and usage to cool itself down and stop itself from overheating and possibly breaking.

[Dash Lambda]

1 hour ago, Tech Inquisition said:

When you are trying to hard to solve a problem and start sweating... You become less effective... Same concept...

... Not quite.

It's more like starting to lift a couch, realizing that if you exert yourself any more you'll give yourself a hernia, and so deciding to let the couch down a little and just move it more slowly.

[Brian McKee]

It's my laptop ruining my New Vegas experience 40 mins in.

[SebastianFelipe13]

By default, there is a limit to how high of a temperature that your CPU can reach. If the temperature gets to high, the motherboard forces the CPU down to a lower clock speed to prevent self-destruction. This is common when playing heavy intensive games for long periods of time and/or by overclocking your CPU. Sometimes if the temperature gets too high, your computer will just do a force shut down to protect itself.