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by Shared404 1419 days ago
I'm sure that would work - over the years since I learned much more about computers, and realized I needn't have worried so much.

My misconception came from an article I read at some point which described assembly/C (I think) programming as more risky, and I just took it at face value.

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It was definitely annoying and if you didn’t have a screwdriver to get inside it was “bricked.”

The one thing I was never brave enough to do was overclock. Supposedly it was just unsoldering a capacitor which would do something like 3x the clock speed.