Eli5, Why does heat slow down a computer?
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Heat doesn’t slow down a computer.
A computer slows down in response when there’s heat.
If it keeps running at full power and gets too hot, things will simply melt or catch fire inside the computer.
In that, heat will simply stop a computer. Full stop. Forever. If the computer doesn’t slow down and reduce heat to avoid damage.
Someone *could* bypass the thermal throttling. They could tamper with heat detection and reaction to trick the computer into thinking everything is perfectly fine. Then, the computer would carry on at full speed until it destroys itself.
It doesn’t. Computers actually probably work better when warm.
However the computer *generates* a lot of heat as it performs calculations. And if it gets *too* hot parts can start melting. So it has a built in thermometer, and if the temp gets to high is slows or stops itself. So that it doesn’t generate anymore heat.
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