Maybe the heat melts the adhesive holding the battery in place and it starts rattling around. Maybe other parts will break because of too much heat around the laptop if it's on a desk made out of PLA or something, you'd want to keep the computer as cold as possible. Intel turbo boosts up to 100C and starts thermal throttling there because that's what they designed the chips for. It seems highly unlikely to me that the CPU running hot does it any harm. I can't imagine it would be for the vast majority of people. Is taking a 20% performance hit on your laptop really worth this? I'm interested.
Maybe the death of these are accelerated by turbo boost, too?ģ) The integrated circuit's death was hastened by a meaningful amount (several months at least a dodgy thing dying a couple of days/weeks later doesn't save you from buying a new laptop). What do you think the odds are in him realising this benefit? Assuming he bins the laptop after, say, 5 years? (he's rich enough to buy a £1.3k minimum laptop, assuming it wasn't second hand)ġ) His laptop dies before he bins it in 5 years' timeĢ) It died becuase of an integrated circuit (the reason he cites) - in my experience old computers tend to die of things like exploded motherboard capacitors rather than ICs. This is not at all meant to be a criticism, but more a question: is taking a 20% performance hit, as the author writes, really worth it for a theoretical improvement in the lifespan of some integrated circuits? Are ICs actually how modern laptops break?