[userbinator]

We don't overclock or overvolt or play other teen games with our hardware.

But doesn't the hardware "overclock" and "overvolt" automatically these days?

This reminds me of the Intel CPUs with similar problems a year ago, and AFAIK it was caused by excessive voltage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039708

[wkat4242]

> But doesn't the hardware "overclock" and "overvolt" automatically these days?

If it's done by the manufacturer it's within spec of course. As designed.

The overclock game was all about running stuff out of spec and getting more performance out of it than it was supposed to create.

[account42]

If anything, what replaced overclocking is not PBO and similar features to dynamically clock the CPU but rather binning that lets better performing samples be sold with higher base frequencies than other samples of the same design.

[mrheosuper]

Also "play other teen games" should not damage your cpu.

[wkat4242]

Ehh I've seen some of these teen games involve complete immersion in oil or even water (can be done as distilled water doesn't conduct but if only a pinch of salt gets into it...). Or even more extreme things like liquid nitrogen. This can have all sorts of weird effects on CPUs not designed for that kinda stuff (e.g. thermal contraction to temperatures under low load way below spec, or cracking due to extreme thermal gradients).