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Maybe to give additional fans when the environment is so loud you can't hear them anyway

Makes sense. Humans are really bad at perceiving the environmental noise floor. Our brains just tune it out, but it is has a huge impact on your perception of the loudness of fans that you've strapped to your face.

Sounds like a recipe for Heisenbugs.

I can certainly see things like this causing a lot of unintended consequences. "It speeds up when I play loud music" is going to confuse many who don't know about this "feature".

“If you play the music loud, your fps will increase!”

Somewhat, although I guess the idea is still to keep perf flat and just throttle the cooling.

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