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Originally Posted by Praetor
For starters, what are the specs of the box?
QUESTIONS 101.
if you stop and think about it, it's hardly neccesary -- ideal to know yes, but not critical |
It's just a personal belief of mine that overclocking isn't really worth it, unless you have a really nice cooling setup, as components tend to die very fast (esp. Hard Drives because of heat) and once you learn all about overclocking then you tend to realize that the benfits are not worth the risk (in air cooled systems) and that you are better off just leaving the system alone. it took me getting my A+ cert to figure this out (I am slow). I can think of only one exception for this, and that is the AMD 2500+ barton core Processor, that thing was amazing, stock cooling could get you 2800+ or 3000+ easy (it was a rad chip). but anyway, I just think this guy doesn't really know what he is getting into since he expects to see 1GHz increases without any affect on the system under air cooling.