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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so it used to be that overclocking your CPU that is making it run faster than the advertised speed was almost exclusively the domain of super hardcore computer enthusiasts nerds and the overclocking community was kind of like this weird secret society but fast-forward to the modern age and it's never been easier to give your processor and artificial boost many motherboards are marketed is even being overclocking friendly with some of them offering one-click like dead simple Auto tuning features and then on top of that AMD and Intel actively promote the fact that some of their chips can be overclocked as a selling point but hold on a minute why is it then that this voids your warranty if they're encouraging you to do it well one term that you might hear thrown around by overclockers is Silicon Lottery and no that is not what they call the Powerball in San Francisco the term refers to the way that small physical differences between individual processors can significantly affect their overclocking potential so while your chip might refuse to be overclocked by more than two megahertz your bodies might be happy running at a full gigahertz above spec because of nothing more than dumb luck this variation is a big part of why chip manufacturers only warrant their processors up to a certain speed they determine that the advertised frequency is the one that they can guarantee stability at and that anything much higher may or may not work due to the silicon lottery the way that individual users will tend to tune their processors differently is another big factor so if one person applies more voltage than another that one is more likely to burn out sooner you know flying close to the Sun and burned wings and all that so the CPU companies look at this not unlike how they would look at you using your new core or a Rison processor to slice a block of cheese instead of using it for computing you can absolutely use it for that purpose it's a free country but it wasn't designed for that and they don't want to be held liable if bits of cheddar on the Contacts keep it from working inside your PC and you know what there's not much that you the consumer can do about this legally speaking goods that you buy generally come with an implied warranty that guarantees that they will conform to industry norms and that they are fit for ordinary purposes but even if you could debate whether or not overclocking is an ordinary purpose for an unlocked chip both AMD and Intel disclaim this implied warranty in their own express warranty that's that piece of paper that you threw away when you opened up the box and they are legally allowed to do so however that doesn't mean that you are completely without recourse if you try to overclock your processor and something goes wrong at least if you have an Intel chip Intel offers what they call the performance tuning Protection Plan a kind of insurance policy that you buy so that Intel will send you a new CPU if you fry your old one from overclocking predictably though the more expensive your CPU the more you'll have to pay for this service AMD at this time doesn't offer a comfortable plan with all of that said whether your team blue or team red the good news is that modern consumer CPUs tend to be exceedingly reliable and very rarely fail at stock speeds and voltage or even slightly boosted ones which means that it isn't likely that you'd ever need to use that warranty anyway so we're not saying don't do it we're just saying that if you decide to overclock and throw your warranty in the garbage be a little conservative with how far you push your settings specifically voltage that's the big killer so do your research to determine the widely accepted safe voltage range for your model of processor before you proceed bottom line don't do anything odd stupid and you will probably be 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