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[-] Strykker@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

They aren't over clocking / under clocking anything with the fix. The chip was just straight up requesting more voltage than it actually needed, this didn't give any benefit and was probably an issue even without the damage it causes, due to extra heat generated.

[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

Giving a CPU more voltage is just what overclocking is. Considering that most of these modern CPUs from both AMD and Intel have already been designed to start clocking until it reaches a high enough temp to start thermally throttling, it's likely that there was a misstep in setting this threshold and the CPU doesn't know when to quit until it kills itself. In the process it is undoubtedly gaining more performance than it otherwise would, but probably not by much, considering a lot of the high end CPUs already have really high thresholds, some even at 90 or 100 C.

[-] Strykker@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

If you actually knew anything you'd know that overclockers tend to manually reduce the voltage as they increase the clock speeds to improve stability, this only works up to a point, but clearly shows voltage does not directly influence clock speed.

[-] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Ah, got me with a reverse gish gallop. Now I'm an idiot, oh no...

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