Comment Re:"risks serious damage to the system" (Score 1) 138
I'm trying to figure out how a user could possibly *be* responsible when it comes to overclocking something in a notebook.
With a desktop, you've got a lot of variables that aren't just within the end-user's ability to assess, but actually entirely within their ability to assess and control. You've got thermal readings, understanding of fan speed, placement of cables and other things that affect airflow management, and the ability to choose just how much (and what form of) cooling is in the case to begin with. You can try things, see the impact of them on the environment inside the machine, and adjust accordingly. Hell, if you want to, you can use a laser thermometer to measure the temperatures in the case on a centimeter-by-centimeter basis to see where the hotspots are so that you can fix them.
In a laptop, you might have some temperature sensors, but you're not exactly sure where they are. You can get some idea of where the heat is building up by feeling the outside of the case, but you can't be sure how much of the actual heat is making it out at that point. You can't change the cooling...at all...to respond to anything that seems awry, and you can't really assess the temperatures that well to begin with. So what happens...you OC, and hope for the best. And, as other posters have pointed out, some of those who hope for the best won't take personal responsibility for the risk they brought upon themselves when it goes wrong, and that's when we would start seeing Slashdot articles with names like "Latest NVidia mobile chipset catching fire spontaneously!" And that's not good for consumers nor is it good for NVidia.