This &quot;software eating the hardware&quot; is worrisome.<p>It used to be that at least you could depend on the hardware staying the same unless you chose to apply patches yourself.<p>Is it theoretically possible to change the microcode to actually add more features instead of disabling them?<p>Let&#x27;s say Zen actually comes out better than expected and then Intel miraculously releases another update which re-enables OC ability?