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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled
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this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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"fuse" implies that the CPU will stop working when it is overclocked, this seems to be more of a mechanism for AMD to let them know that the reason the CPU is not working anymore is because it was overclocked and fried.
Somewhat.
All this fuse does is tell AMD that the chip has had custom clocks or voltage applied to it (this appears to also apply to underclocking and undervolting as far as I can gather)
It does not prove that if the chip is faulty that it must be the OC/undervolt/whatever that caused it.
Think of those water detection strips in other products. They can tell the manufacturer if something has been in a humid environment, but just because it has been doesn't guarantee that that is what caused the fault to come about.
Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault
Apple is the bad exemple
Apple is the bad