WizardStan
Mega GP Mania
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Even my quad 3.4ghz desktop likes to keep itself down around 1.5ghz unless something's happening. If I compile something -j6 and it takes more than a couple minutes it starts screaming about overheating and throttles down noticeably. I should probably check the fan, with adequate cooling I could improve that.admittedly i'm only doing some light web browsing...
The point being that, while it can get up to 3.4ghz, that is not the normal usage, and while you can put all kinds of fancy cooling into it to maintain higher clock speeds for longer periods of time it doesn't change the fact that the are being designed to throttle automatically when they get too hot, and they get too hot when run at max clock for extended periods of time.