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notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so it used

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to be that overclocking your CPU that is

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making it run faster than the advertised speed was almost exclusively the domain

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of super hardcore computer enthusiasts

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nerds and the overclocking community was

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kind of like this weird secret society but fast-forward to the modern age and

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it's never been easier to give your processor and artificial boost many

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motherboards are marketed is even being overclocking friendly with some of them

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offering one-click like dead simple Auto

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tuning features and then on top of that AMD and Intel actively promote the fact

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that some of their chips can be overclocked as a selling point but hold

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on a minute why is it then that this

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voids your warranty if they're encouraging you to do it well one term

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that you might hear thrown around by overclockers is Silicon Lottery and no

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that is not what they call the Powerball in San Francisco the term refers to the

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way that small physical differences between individual processors can

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significantly affect their overclocking potential so while your chip might

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refuse to be overclocked by more than two megahertz your bodies might be happy

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running at a full gigahertz above spec because of nothing more than dumb luck

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this variation is a big part of why chip

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manufacturers only warrant their processors up to a certain speed they

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determine that the advertised frequency is the one that they can guarantee

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stability at and that anything much higher may or may not work due to the

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silicon lottery the way that individual users will tend to tune their processors

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differently is another big factor so if one person applies more voltage than

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another that one is more likely to burn out sooner you know flying close to the

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Sun and burned wings and all that so the CPU companies look at this not unlike

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how they would look at you using your new core or a Rison processor to slice a

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block of cheese instead of using it for computing you can absolutely use it for

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that purpose it's a free country but it wasn't designed for that and they don't

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want to be held liable if bits of cheddar on the Contacts keep it from

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working inside your PC and you know what

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there's not much that you the consumer can do about this legally speaking goods

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that you buy generally come with an implied warranty that guarantees that

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they will conform to industry norms and that they are fit for ordinary purposes

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but even if you could debate whether or not overclocking is an ordinary purpose

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for an unlocked chip both AMD and Intel

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disclaim this implied warranty in their own express warranty that's that piece

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of paper that you threw away when you opened up the box and they are legally

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allowed to do so however that doesn't

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mean that you are completely without recourse if you try to overclock your

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processor and something goes wrong at least if you have an Intel chip Intel

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offers what they call the performance tuning Protection Plan a kind of

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insurance policy that you buy so that Intel will send you a new CPU if you fry

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your old one from overclocking predictably though the more expensive

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your CPU the more you'll have to pay for this service AMD at this time doesn't

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offer a comfortable plan with all of that said whether your team blue or team

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red the good news is that modern consumer CPUs tend to be exceedingly

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reliable and very rarely fail at stock speeds and voltage or even slightly

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boosted ones which means that it isn't likely that you'd ever need to use that

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warranty anyway so we're not saying

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don't do it we're just saying that if you decide to overclock and throw your

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warranty in the garbage be a little conservative with how far you push your

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settings specifically voltage that's the

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big killer so do your research to determine the widely accepted safe

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voltage range for your model of processor before you proceed bottom line

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don't do anything odd stupid and you will probably be fine

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