What I'm thinking about is something like the phoronix test suites, but for thermals. In such a way that one can see eg how their own cpu's cooling performs compared to others, and how this one particular setup of that cpu performs compared to others. Stuff like that.
I guess what I'm after isn't knowing what the peak temperature of my setup is, or what the max heat dissipation is in kW. What I want is some way to answer these questions: "Is this setup okay for my parts?", "Will this heat damage my battery?" and "Should I clean the fans asap?"
Sage, I have no idea how you mean me to answer those with only the temp under load.
Shouldn't I also know the characteristics of my chips for that? Or is there some temperature before which all semiconductors are good and after that all are broken?
If it were just a thing of peak temperature... why are thermally damaged batteries not a rare occurrence? Surely the OS could detect it passing the threshold, and choose to stop the process or risk the battery depending on some setting, if it were just that one number.
I'd expect the laptop is designed such that it's impossible for the battery to be damaged by a chip running within its normal operating temps, but you'd probably need to look at a repair manual for those sorts of specs
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Shouldn't I also know the characteristics of my chips for that? Or is there some temperature before which all semiconductors are good and after that all are broken?