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cballowe t1_ixp8csn wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee by kishiki18_91

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.

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[deleted] t1_ixp8qqt wrote

>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.

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