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to be that overclocking your CPU that is
making it run faster than the advertised speed was almost exclusively the domain
of super hardcore computer enthusiasts
nerds and the overclocking community was
kind of like this weird secret society but fast-forward to the modern age and
it's never been easier to give your processor and artificial boost many
motherboards are marketed is even being overclocking friendly with some of them
offering one-click like dead simple Auto
tuning features and then on top of that AMD and Intel actively promote the fact
that some of their chips can be overclocked as a selling point but hold
on a minute why is it then that this
voids your warranty if they're encouraging you to do it well one term
that you might hear thrown around by overclockers is Silicon Lottery and no
that is not what they call the Powerball in San Francisco the term refers to the
way that small physical differences between individual processors can
significantly affect their overclocking potential so while your chip might
refuse to be overclocked by more than two megahertz your bodies might be happy
running at a full gigahertz above spec because of nothing more than dumb luck
this variation is a big part of why chip
manufacturers only warrant their processors up to a certain speed they
determine that the advertised frequency is the one that they can guarantee
stability at and that anything much higher may or may not work due to the
silicon lottery the way that individual users will tend to tune their processors
differently is another big factor so if one person applies more voltage than
another that one is more likely to burn out sooner you know flying close to the
Sun and burned wings and all that so the CPU companies look at this not unlike
how they would look at you using your new core or a Rison processor to slice a
block of cheese instead of using it for computing you can absolutely use it for
that purpose it's a free country but it wasn't designed for that and they don't
want to be held liable if bits of cheddar on the Contacts keep it from
working inside your PC and you know what
there's not much that you the consumer can do about this legally speaking goods
that you buy generally come with an implied warranty that guarantees that
they will conform to industry norms and that they are fit for ordinary purposes
but even if you could debate whether or not overclocking is an ordinary purpose
for an unlocked chip both AMD and Intel
disclaim this implied warranty in their own express warranty that's that piece
of paper that you threw away when you opened up the box and they are legally
allowed to do so however that doesn't
mean that you are completely without recourse if you try to overclock your
processor and something goes wrong at least if you have an Intel chip Intel
offers what they call the performance tuning Protection Plan a kind of
insurance policy that you buy so that Intel will send you a new CPU if you fry
your old one from overclocking predictably though the more expensive
your CPU the more you'll have to pay for this service AMD at this time doesn't
offer a comfortable plan with all of that said whether your team blue or team
red the good news is that modern consumer CPUs tend to be exceedingly
reliable and very rarely fail at stock speeds and voltage or even slightly
boosted ones which means that it isn't likely that you'd ever need to use that
warranty anyway so we're not saying
don't do it we're just saying that if you decide to overclock and throw your
warranty in the garbage be a little conservative with how far you push your
settings specifically voltage that's the
big killer so do your research to determine the widely accepted safe
voltage range for your model of processor before you proceed bottom line
don't do anything odd stupid and you will probably be fine
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