Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

Indeed, those gamers knowledgeable enough to discern throttling are very likely to find it unacceptable to allow their CPU to get hot enough for it to be more than a rare issue.
About the only folks I can think of who would regularly run into it are folks like me who are involved in distributed computing projects like UD/Grid Cancer Research, Folding@Home, SETI, BOINC, etc., because many of us run our systems at 100% CPU utilization 24/7. If our systems were to throttle under high temp conditions, the performance drop would become apparent,though it might take a few days to verify. Mine generally runs 24/7 at 53C±1C CPU temp, some run theirs even hotter. Now Prescotts probably run considerably "warmer". ;)
When gaming, my system always runs cooler, because UD only runs idle CPU cycles, so any app with higher than idle priority gets its needs fulfilled first. The only things that run it hotter that I know of would be something like BurnK7.
Paul