Quote (DCSS @ Sep 7 2017 01:28pm)
overclocking isnt even the issue, the conclusion itself states that regardless of whether or not the chip is overclocked, even with higher stock speeds, the failure rate is higher.
... firmware isn't going to change the physical properties of electricity, silicon, or the way the signal is propagated.
people running ancient hardware thing doesn't matter either, it's not like all overclocked systems fail, in fact most continue functioning because that's the nature of hardware. If you had read the study you'd have seen that. By 8 months only 1 in every 190 systems had failed overall. There's also been no attempts to replace the faulty component and fix the machine, which most people do. And many of your LTT buddies likely have done if their systems are that old. In the case of longer warranties there's more factors than higher clocked hardware having a slightly higher failure rate, like the fact someone who buys such a pc is more likely to upgrade again before it fails because they are an "enthusiast". The longer warranty can also be reflected in a higher upfront cost and the lower expense to cover it later when said hardware has already heavily depreciated by the end of a longer warranty.
i dont understand how there's too many variables for you to wrap your head around. 1 million pc's. they looked at every single one that failed to see where the faults occured and noted things like clock speed, ram amounts, DRAM, etc. It wasn't obtuse at all. They had a large enough sample size to note that among the higher clocked pcs, a greater percentage of them failed due to faults in that hardware as opposed to things like disk failures.
was was average clock of cpus in 2011?
was is average clock now?
lol not to mention gpu frequencies now too
of course overclocking is going to report more errors because they become unstable after time and because people are trying to push higher
windows error means hardware is faulty completely or just being pushed beyond its limits
wow
did you even overclock then?
if you pushed too far on intel pc you would bsod/etc and send report next time enter bios reduce or raise voltage etc
so why wouldnt it show higher frequency gets more errors?
This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Sep 7 2017 01:08pm