• mox@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    3 months ago

    When I started using computers, I wasn’t aware of any thermal protections in popular CPUs. Do you happen to know when they first appeared in Intel chips?

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      Pentium 2 and 3 had rudimentary protection. They would simply shutdown if they got too hot. Pentium 4 was the first one that would throttle down clock speeds.

      Anything before that didn’t have any protection as far as I’m aware.