Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
Or could you write a virus or trick someone in to do doing just that? When did thermal throttling first become a thing for that matter?
I don’t know when it was introduced exactly. Thermal shutdown is much older. It used to be that CPUs/boards had no way to change the clock speed: it was just a quartz crystal oscillator soldered to the board, or at best plugged in to a DIP socket, so you could cold-swap it with a different speed oscillator.