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Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by Kluggy on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:49AM (#39482980)
CPU manufacturers certainly hold the line you stated but motherboard venders have jumped over the line and now sell motherboards that overlock for the end user entirely transparently.

It’s fair for the end user who bought a motherboard that promises a higher clock speed to expect that clock speed.

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Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by crazygringo on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:37PM (#39483652)
Do these motherboards explicitly provide a warranty that covers not just damage from overclocking but also CPU errors?

If you can provide links, I'd be curious to see what guarantees they make. "What's fair" depends very specifically on what language they use.

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Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by Kluggy on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:14PM (#39484138)
https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tu... has "ASUS Multicore Enhancement" bios setting which defaulted to Auto which is documented as "This item allows you to maximize the overclocking performance optimized by ASUS core ratio settings."

They have now entered the AI bubble with

https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/Intelligent-mothe...

MSI has a similar setting, although I don't know exactly what models have it nor what it's called

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Re:Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression F... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:52PM (#39483861)
From my limited knowledge the motherboard manufacturers hide behind disclaimers. Iirc even using fast ram at their rated clock speed with a cpu that does not support that speed is a warranty violation.
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