I have a feeling this is only going to wind up affecting people who have poorly ventilated cases that wind up around 65C+ average or higher (I know a few people like that), with dust bunnies dancing on their fan intakes, while the average person here will never see anything happen. We'll see if this winds up only affecting "hot boxes" or not.

Remember, many average joes have their cpu fans clogged and CPU temps often reaching into the 80's at *stock* load at normal program usage. I have a friend with an i7 920 that has such poor ventilation, that when I made him run prime95 for a test, it went past TJMax (Log) in a matter of minutes, according to realtemp. That's probably the focus of that. And he knows about his comp overheating, but I can't do anything for him since he's a minor and I have no access to his place until graduation. These boards and cpus and video cards have to be made to operate in and withstand constant temps of over 70C-80C, and if a PLL starts failing at 80C instead of 120C as originally intended, then you have a problem.

We won't know for awhile if a single user on these forums (who know how to maintain their systems) will be affected. Only thing that might take a hit is the resell value of the boards. And if systems wind up not dying enmasse, is anyone even going to remember this issue in three years?

The F00F bug was much, much worse than this; anyone could crash an entire network or domain with that...

But we'll find out.