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CPU manufacturers certainly hold the line you stated but motherboard venders have jumped over the line and now sell motherboards that overlock for the end user
by Kluggy 3y ago
CPU manufacturers certainly hold the line you stated but motherboard venders have jumped over the line and now sell motherboards that overlock for the end user entirely transparently.
It’s fair for the end user who bought a motherboard that promises a higher clock speed to expect that clock speed.
- crazygringo 3y agoDo these motherboards explicitly provide a warranty that covers not just damage from overclocking but also CPU errors? If you can provide links, I'd be curious to see what guarantees they make. "What's fair" depends very specifically on what language they use.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoFrom my limited knowledge the motherboard manufacturers hide behind disclaimers. Iirc even using fast ram at their rated clock speed with a cpu that does not support that speed is a warranty violation.
- Kluggy 3y agohttps://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tuf-gaming/tuf-z370-plus-gaming/ https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/tu... has "ASUS Multicore Enhancement" bios setting which defaulted to Auto which is documented as "This item allows you to maximize the overclocking performance optimized by ASUS core ratio settings." They have now entered the AI bubble with https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/Intelligent-motherboard/AI-Overclocking.html https://www.asus.com/microsite/motherboard/Intelligent-mothe... MSI has a similar setting, although I don't know exactly what models have it nor what it's called