Raymond Chen said a few years ago that overclocked machines produce a lot of spurious crash reports: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=3

Raymond Chen said a few years ago that overclocked machines produce a lot of spurious crash reports: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35923 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35... If those computers are scribbling over memory at random, then that's occasionally going to cause some crashes, but much more commonly result in silent data corruption.