What is PC Component Throttling?
It’s pretty easy to make PC component throttling sound more sinister than it is. The bottom line is that your computer is engineered to protect its self. Its pretty much common knowledge that many PC BIOS chips today will adjust fan speed to match the heat being generated by the processor. This keeps the CPU cool under stress and prevents it from burning itself up. The idea behind the technology (called SpeedStep in Intel based systems and Cool and Quiet in AMD based systems) is that to reduce the speed of the components in the computer to reduce heat when the fans are working at 100% and you are doing a really intense task like rendering video, playing a high-end game, or editing 50 high-resolution images in Photoshop at one time like my wife does. If your computer is cooling at its maximum and that’s not enough, it will drop the speed until the temperature falls back to normal levels. Why You Want / Don’t Want It Views on PC Component throttling generally fall into two camps – high-p
