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When playing any windows game the PC heats up to 90 no matter what it is doing. This doesnt happen a lot on other type of games like Wii or GC games (dolphin flatpak). Is there any solution or do I really need to find out how to disable TurboBoost?

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Disabling Turbo Boost falls under limiting power/clock speed.

Turbo Boost is just a dynamic overclock, as such, disabling it is essentially an underclock. It can indeed result in a smoother experience by virtue of reducing thermal throttling. Thermal limits can reduce clocks much more drastically while waiting for the CPU to cool, than running it at lower but not-as-hot clockrate to begin with.

This is especially true for for weaker cooling systems that take longer to get the temps back down when the CPU hits max, meaning it can take a second before the CPU is back to normal speed. An underclock in such a case is beneficial.