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That didn't occur to me. I'm sending it in for a warranty repair in a few days, but in the mean time I need to back up everything on my hard drive because "If your device does not have Windows 8 installed, it will be erased and restored to factory settings". So, if I severely underclock my CPU (maybe 1.0GHz), a) will it prevent overheating, and b) will it show up in any kind of low-level logs that could void my warranty?

Lucas Phillips
– Lucas Phillips

2013-11-16 13:03:09 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 13:03
a. Nope b. maybe, but I doubt it. There just going to format your drive. You have backups right.

coteyr
– coteyr

2013-11-16 20:15:14 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 20:15
CPUs pretty much always have good thermal protection: if they detect overheating, they'll throttle down to a lesser speed or lock up. Other processors on the motherboard or GPU may be less resistant, and may be damaged, but a fire is almost unheard of (you'd have to mess with the power supply for that). Underclocking is likely to prevent overheating if you manage to underclock all the overheating components (which may be more than the CPU).

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
– Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'

2013-11-16 21:36:24 +00:00
Commented Nov 16, 2013 at 21:36

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