<i>&quot;Everyone with the slightest knowledge about overclocking knows that overclocking can damage your parts.&quot;</i><p>It is not necessarily about damaging your parts; that would be the least of their worries. Unreliability of the CPU is the real problem. Your CPU might be 20% faster, but if it incorrectly computes some number in your spreadsheet, corrupts the file, or, worse, corrupts your file system without immediate consequences, or, even worse, makes hardware (drone, self-driving car, nuclear facility) behave incorrectly, they will not just have angry customers, but likely also lawsuits started against them (yes, they might win them, but not necessarily easily; people would complain that they should have closed that hole, given that they knew it was misused)<p>Also, that &#x27;everybody with the slightest knowledge about overclocking knows&#x27; is only relevant as long as overclocking remains a niche thing. If it were mainstream, many of its users would not have &#x27;the slightest knowledge about overclocking&#x27;. This microcode update helps keep it that way.