I think you're only considering catastrophic unable to boot failure. A CPU could be going bad with the effects less obvious. Microsoft released research that s

I think you're only considering catastrophic unable to boot failure. A CPU could be going bad with the effects less obvious. Microsoft released research that shows enthusiast overclocking has a clear increase in hardware faults. [1] http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-over-a-million-pc-failures-results-shatter-enthusiast-myths http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/131739-microsoft-analyzes-... [2] http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nightingale.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/144888/eurosys84-nighting...