So the purpose is to protect them if someone overclocks and fries it, meaning they know if you take it in under warranty and say you want this faulty part replaced?
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ABCDE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s fair, just like Apple devices (phones and iPods) have/had a detector in the headphone port for water damage.
Gargleblaster@kbin.social 9 months ago
BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 months ago
pretty much, also stops any techs or engineers looking into possible problems of the product from spending hours wondering what went wrong before the user says (if at all) “oh yeah, i overclocked it btw”.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 months ago
It’s only fair
nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 months ago
Lotta manufacturers have done that. I had an Android phone back in the day that was notorious for false positives on the moisture detectors. The phone was a piece of shit and a lot of people wrongly got denied on warranty claims because of supposed moisture.