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by Scubabear6819 hours ago |
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upvoteby dunham18 hours ago|
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I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).
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upvoteby Analemma_17 hours ago|
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Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
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upvoteby asimovDev10 hours ago|
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BG3 is a native game, they dropped x86 support shortly after launch on macOS (or maybe even in beta)
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upvoteby dangus17 hours ago|
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Apple Silicon is not really the simultaneously silent and quiet and cool system it was in the M1 days.

If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.

MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.

Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.

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upvoteby dunham1 hours ago|
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I probably should have clarified that I'm on an M1 then (a macbook pro, so there is a fan). I didn't realize the newer ones get warmer.
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upvoteby ciupicri18 hours ago|
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upvoteby rogerrogerr18 hours ago|
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The target market of the "Neo crap" doesn't care and/or isn't pushing workloads that come anywhere near saturating it. It's a laptop that doesn't bend, has a decent screen, has a decent battery, and isn't full of adware.
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upvoteby ciupicri17 hours ago|
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The article was about warming up a laptop. Neo can do it too.
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upvoteby rogerrogerr17 hours ago|
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And your comment was calling it crap for some reason. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you’d left that apparently superfluous word out of your comment.
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upvoteby inventor777716 hours ago|
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How does the Neo getting to 100°C make it crap? By that logic, aren't all older Intel/x86 chips crap? If anything, I find it impressive that a small laptop CPU can do 100°C without a problem...my i7-7700T M710qs hit 75°C and throttle within a minute if I use a tool like y-cruncher or stress-ng. To be fair, totally different purpose.
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upvoteby wtallis12 hours ago|
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For a very long time now, it has been the case that in the short term most processors will boost high enough for the die to reach around 100°C. When you see a reading substantially lower than that like your example of 75°C, either the system has throttled for a reason other than processor die temperature (eg. throttling to limit the temperature of the outer case of the machine) or the temperature reading you're seeing does not correspond to the hottest part of the chip and the throttling is based on the presumption that a different part of the chip that is not directly monitored will be much hotter.

In the specific case of the i7-7700T, the "T" suffix for Intel CPUs usually means you have mainstream desktop silicon with arbitrarily reduced long-term turbo limits, intended to be used in small form factor PCs with limited cooling capacity. Its limitation to 35W sustained and official Tj max of 80°C are artificial and essentially fiction, and the same silicon will readily do 91W sustained with a Tj max of 100°C as seen on the i7-7700K.

Processor temperature under load tells you almost nothing about the power draw or efficiency of the chip, because the temperature can be controlled to almost any value desired through a combination of varying cooling effort and varying clock speeds.

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