I understand the increased degradation of parts over time, but what is the heat doing to make a computer perform worse in real time?
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What people tend to forget is that the chip creates heat because things *are moving* inside the chip. It is on the quantum level, but things are moving and that is what gives the chip the ability to pass electricity and not pass electricity. Because it moves at the speed of light, we don’t perceive any time passing but it is happening and the movement causes heat. The problem is that a MOSFET doped transistor will cease to function properly at 175 degrees Celsius, since a chip is made up of billions of those things if they don’t work right the whole computer will stop functioning properly.
So computer component manufacturers develop cooling technologies and software that will throttle the components back to avoid damaging them. When you feel the computer moving more sluggishly, that is what is happening.
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