Comment on Protect your PC

JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i mean an os could definitely overvolt the gpu, that’s how users do it

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  • Lemzlez@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pretty sure the gpu BIOS is limited by default, nothing the OS can do about that.

    Same for other parts like the cpu - core voltage is determined by the motherboard.

    I doubt the os can just go “2V vcore” and blow up hardware.

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    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah there’s quite a bit of safety mechanisms in place but I imagine windows could just adjust all the gpu overclocking settings to the max and make the system unstable. Plus just reformat all of your drives

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    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah you definitely can’t easily kill it, only shorten its lifespan

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok that makes sense

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