Pushing the envelope
My son was experiencing issues with his (gaming) PC recently and it was interesting watching all the chatter back and forth between support, various forums and so on. I, in my true identity as a "person who spent quite a bit of a lifetime designing logic" just dismissed the problem as "you need to turn the clock speed down a bit" but in my other identity as a parent I knew nothing and so needed to be ignored.
Needless to say, after a couple of weeks messing around the solution was triumphantly announced -- clock speed needed adjusting.
Its really difficult to explain to the masses (!) the statistical nature of logic, how you're not working with gates and logic levels but something that's much more organic (analog?) when you run it near the edge. Normally everyone keeps timing windows conservative so users don't experience weirdness but in the world of competitive motherboards there's a tendency to turn the wick up until things break and then just back it off a bit. It "kinda, sorta" works but isn't really a viable strategy. Things won't necessarily just break but there will be strange and random system errors that will point the finger at all matter of irrelevant components (like the son's failure manifest itself as a memory bank problem).