In my situation, I want to have higher performance for lighter tasks and lower performance for heavy tasks. My question is, is there any reason why I shouldn't max out the turbo ratio limits and set the PROCHOT offset to a high value to achieve this?
I guess my question is more about how the PROCHOT mechanism works. Can I rely on PROCHOT to keep my CPU from dying early? If my PROCHOT temperature is say, 80 degrees, and the CPU is at 3.5ghz and 80 degrees, could it repeatedly spike up to higher temperatures and frequencies for fractions of a second that I can't see in ThrottleStop, hence shortening the CPU life?
Does the CPU read the temperature first and THEN decide what frequency to turbo up to, or does it turbo first and then read the temperature and decide to throttle?
I guess my question is more about how the PROCHOT mechanism works. Can I rely on PROCHOT to keep my CPU from dying early? If my PROCHOT temperature is say, 80 degrees, and the CPU is at 3.5ghz and 80 degrees, could it repeatedly spike up to higher temperatures and frequencies for fractions of a second that I can't see in ThrottleStop, hence shortening the CPU life?
Does the CPU read the temperature first and THEN decide what frequency to turbo up to, or does it turbo first and then read the temperature and decide to throttle?