Any gearhead with hands-on experience in the overclocking field knows that built-in CPU protections and overhead margins will safeguard the chip on the red line first, as opposed to the host platform. A motherboard with its myriad of components and weak link circuitry will give out far quicker and more often than practically any modern processor when pushing spec ranges.
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