[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.