Why XMP and memory overclocking are OK even if they void your warranty

Now that Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake CPUs have formally adopted memory overclocking on locked CPUs, including adding support for more budget-friendly motherboards, you might assume the behavior carries no risk of voiding your CPU’s warranty.Like most assumptions, with this one you’d be wrong. Memory overclocking typically means running the memory beyond industry specs, such as running DDR4/2933 at the speed of DDR4/3200. Even though Intel now allows non-K chips or locked chips to overclock memory on cheaper H570 and H510 motherboards, the company still considers such behavior to be outside the warranty.To read this article in full, please click here https://www.pcworld.com/article/3611674/why-xmp-and-memory-overclocking-are-ok-even-if-they-void-your-warranty.html#tk.rss_all

Creată 4y | 16 mar. 2021, 19:20:27


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