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You may want to take a look at some of the sleuthing Wendell over on Level1Techs did.

He was able to identify a large group of CPUs used in W680 chipset motherboards (i.e. using stock Intel power curves, never seeing a lick of overclocking/overvolting) which exhibited issues.

It would seem enthusiast ricing is, at best, an aggravating factor to some other underlying cause.

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You misunderstood. Some modern CPUs are designed to overclock themselves. The user does not have to do it anymore. It happens automatically.

It isn't "overclocking" if you conform to the Intel specification.

What you are getting at is Turbo boost, which is not a new thing. We can split hairs over the incremental enhancements to Turbo boost over the years of course.

The large group of W680 are the game servers running 13900 & 14900.

Is this just an informational statement or were you trying to highlight a perceived shortcoming of what I had said?

If the latter, I am afraid I don't see the point you are hinting at and need more clarification.

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