• JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    Is that actually possible? I don’t know how much privilege an operating system has. I would think if would need to go deeper

    • Jumuta
      223·
      5 months ago

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

      • Lemzlez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        5 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.

        • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          5 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

        • Jumuta
          21·
          5 months ago

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