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This is the best I can do with 3DMark 2011, A05 BIOS (not volt modded). i7-2630QM, 1.5GB G555m (765/950). P1774

NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor,Alienware M14xR1 score: P1774 3DMarks

@all - I can't say ive never had the cpu throttle back. The shin-etsu 3 months old now and is about to be replaced with the ICD Diamond for testing. I know I have hit mid 90s without issue and that's without throttlestop. The challenge is that the higher GPU overclocks really eat into the CPU cooling as well. So as you need to lower your bios settings to help adjust to get max CPU performance without hitting that throttle-point. It gets confusing but the bottom line is that if you are going to overclock you really have to watch temps closely.

True, even though they have seperate heat pipes they are both connected at the end and some heat will transfer over too. It helps compensate for heat by disabling CPU Turbo in the BIOS. You loose a couple of frames because of the lower multiplier (20 to 26), but you can easily fix that by doing a safe overclock (700/1000).

Hmmmm... Does it actually say 130 C in the Intel whitepapers for 2630QM? That would mean it's actually running out of spec in many cases, like in the M14x. My point was, if you were not running ThrottleStop the CPU would not have reached 100 C and caused a shutdown or BSOD. It does throttle before it reaches 100 C, just try running wPrime with 8 threads and see. But if the whitepapers says 130 C on the 2630QM, no one should be afraid of frying their CPU at 100 C. A combo of ThrottleStop and max fan speed would be good, but some still prefer a bit less noise. 5300rpm vs 5700rpm.

Very old video, but a nice demo of how early Intel has had this technology.

Sorry for mixing up throttling and thermal protection in one of my sentences. As unclewebb quotes, it's a hardware built-in function. ThrottleStop can't harm your CPU, but make it reach a predefined BIOS temperature for shutdown.

Don't blame the A05 BIOS for your CPUs hitting tj. max (100 C). It's your fault as you are using ThrottleStop, which basically prevents the thermal protection from working correctly. You can load all your cores at 100% with the fan running at 3000rpm if you want... it will throttle down to a safe clock.