lynx97 3 days ago

Haha, the times they are a changing. I still remember c't april fools joke from the 90s where they published a scencil (template) to indicate where you have to drill a hole into your pentium CPU to be able to overclock it. I still chuckle about the whole thing almost 30 years after the fact, still wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then. At times, active thinking of your peers just needs to be challenged so they don't get too confident...

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RandomBacon 2 days ago

This reminds me of the joke videos where you could drill a hole into the iPhone to access the headphone jack or microwave it for wireless charging. I don't recall seeing any pictures of people actually doing those things though, just "angry" comments which were also probably jokes.

sokoloff 2 days ago

Someone actually did it (for real): https://youtu.be/utfbE3_uAMA

nyanpasu64 2 days ago

Meanwhile the Xbox 360 kamikaze hack actually involved drilling a chip...

hulitu 20 hours ago

> wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then.

Well, if they knew where the CPU is, and still drilled a hole through it, they deserved it.