News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007). Parent comment

Re:CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) by forrestthewoods on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:23AM (#6873349)
I think you're only considering catastrophic unable to boot failure. A CPU could be going bad with the effects less obvious.

Microsoft released research that shows enthusiast overclocking has a clear increase in hardware faults.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-... [2] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nighting...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) by alelefant on Monday December 09, 2013 @03:33AM (#6873374)
While that research is certainly interesting, the poster above you acknowledged that overclocking could result in failures.
[ Parent | on HN ]