[deleted] t1_ixp7s55 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 5:18 AM

Reply to comment by cballowe in Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee by kishiki18_91

>And it's very much the same as overclocking (aside from the fact that you don't pay the original manufacturer to do the overclocking).

It's not though, this is essentially just unlocking features that are inherently there to begin with.

Overclocking is essentially exploiting the specific performance a chip may or may not have. That performance headroom isn't necessarily there to being with, and it's not necessarily something that offers any benefit to the consumer (stability issues, power consumption, compute errors etc).

cballowe t1_ixp8csn wrote on November 25, 2022 at 5:24 AM

Overclocking is still... Get a motherboard that lets you tweak voltage, current, and clock settings, and push the buttons until you get somewhere. Most enthusiast chips are good for a fair bit over what the box says. Electric motors are similar - push more electric power through them and you get more power out at the wheel.

The only difference is that they charge you to flip the bits that the overclocking motherboards use as an up front feature for selling the board.

[deleted] t1_ixp8qqt wrote on November 25, 2022 at 5:29 AM

>Get a motherboard that lets you tweak voltage, current, and clock settings, and push the buttons until you get somewhere. Most enthusiast chips are good for a fair bit over what the box says.

Lol that's been completely false for the last few years or so, so you're talking out of your ass.

There's basically no meaningful headroom available on CPUs unless you start cranking out chilled water or liquid nitrogen (how does the normal consumer benefit?).

GPUs essentially have to be modded on the circuitry side to get any additional performance (but highly unstable) due to the power limits they have.