It's a safety feature not a lot of people know about.
It's called throttling, which has been around for a while now. The CPU will effectively cut its power down to 50% first, and will continue to do so till it reaches a point where it can stay cool enough, while still being operational (albeit very very slow.)
This also happens with my brain at work. Whenever I feel my workload is too high, my brain goes into 0.05 nanosecond of work, followed by 5 seconds of Slashdot reading, 0.05 nanosecond of work, 5 seconds of Slashdot, etc., etc., till it cools down enough.
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H| I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere.
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