AMD says overclocking blows a hidden fuse on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 to show if you’ve overclocked the chip, but it doesn’t automatically void your CPU’s warranty::AMD explains the hidden fuses behind Ryzen Threadripper 7000 processors and how it will handle warranty claims.
Mmm. Raising prices. Implementing anti-consumer tactics. Where have I seen this before…?
Oh, I know. When a company becomes the bad guy. Just like the Intel monopoly from 2011-2018. Or Nvidia. Or microsoft in the 90s. Or Google or Amazon now.
Remember when checked bags were free on airlines and they didn’t nickel and dime you to death? When seats had room? When exit rows were free? This happens all the time, and it’s never a good change.
Your airline example fails when you account for ticket price trends and access to flights for the poor.
Is it really that equitable, though? Some airlines hold a monopoly on certain routes, and people fly much more often now, to the tune of a couple hundred dollars round trip. Cars and planes doomed our already-faltering rail lines, which were our best shot at low cost, low carbon transportation. We can still do it, but we’ve coughed up a ton of money to a few air carriers when we used to have a booming consumer rail network.
Anti-consumer tactics of having mechanisms to detect when a customer has abused the product they might try to get replaced for free, that they say in this article won’t automatically mean the warranty is rejected?
You’re free to overclock your computer hardware, but you take the risk on yourself when you do so. It’s always been this way. If you want to be covered by warranty, keep it in spec, hit “no” when the warning comes up that enabling this feature can void your warranty.