Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
well, this is a risk to take ... I am not ready to take this risk.
you see that from a OC point of view. with this feature enable, you are 10 lines of code away from freezing. You may dissagree on use of this API hook, but I totally dissagree when somebody write a virus, it does not stop them from doing it ... grrrrrrrr

I am looking at ways to do it safely, like a push button has to be pushed to make the hardware change its ratio via software. When you have an product like Core 2, you don t want to expose yourself to one hacker in his garage, do you understand my point?

It is not showing "little understanding" to put priority into safety.

I am the extreme guy, i try my best to find compromise, I just can't give a loaded gun to a hacker ...

Please see the big picture, it make sense!

Francois Alias who?
To answer an other post, I always speak for myself here, not for intel.
I understand what your saying its a vulnerability for an exploit that could, cause a system halt. But so would any tuning software, riva tuner for gfx etc...as well, like BrowncoatGR said, the same could be done by altering FSB. And 10 lines of code can just as easily block it, if someone were to create that malicious code, as well, the OS is more a vulnerability, than that. A virus that shut down the comp, would be annoying yes, but easily detectable, and not sure on the bio's but could easily be blocked by adding some bios code, to block that function, if it were to happen, simple on off switch in the bios. The advantages to clocking systems in that way, is useful, especially for the average user, and for system boosts. I use intel currently and with nehalem approaching, will most likely continue to do so, but if nehalem had this feature would i complain..not on your life, that would be amazing. A cpu the tests its max stability, then dynamicly changes multis based on load would be amazing.
Again, i understand the vulnerability, and I was ahead of myself in questioning your knowledge, Je suis désolé.
But with a million exploits out there, and the main motivation since the advent of mainstream internet use being, to make money, not havok, I see this as a very very low threat vulnerability, verses, lets say, the good ol backdoor days ^^