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Intel Thermal Monitoring Technologies
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Here is what I found on Intel's website:
Thermal Monitoring Technologies
Laptops using mobile Intel processors require thermal management. The term "thermal management" refers to two major elements: a cooling solution properly mounted to the processor, and effective airflow through a part of that cooling solution to evacuate heat out of the system. The ultimate goal of thermal management is to keep the processor at or below its maximum operating temperature (Case).
Located here: http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-031505.htm
So how does this principle work in the Mac Pro?
Thermal Monitoring Technologies
Laptops using mobile Intel processors require thermal management. The term "thermal management" refers to two major elements: a cooling solution properly mounted to the processor, and effective airflow through a part of that cooling solution to evacuate heat out of the system. The ultimate goal of thermal management is to keep the processor at or below its maximum operating temperature (Case).
Located here: http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/CS-031505.htm
So how does this principle work in the Mac Pro?
All processors since the Pentium have thermal management in one form or anther (eg. Speedstep, etc). In fact, Turbo Boost in the latest processors is an application of this technology that actually uses thermal headroom to auto overclock. Your processor will most certainly throttle itself if the cooling system fails it, but the cooling system in the SP Mac Pro's has been designed for 130W TDP processors like the W3680 so you won't see throttling unless the cooling system is not performing optimally (eg. fan failure or unusually high ambiant temps etc.).