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jiggawattstoday at 5:41 AM1 replyview on HN

Even if you do that, there are firmware-level overrides that most laptops won't allow you to override. If you did, the laptop would melt.

You might be benchmarking the chassis fans more than the CPUs!


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Melatonictoday at 7:58 AM

Agreed. Not to mention NVME SSD throttle pretty quickly due to heat too.