To overclock, or not to overclock?

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kesava8@hotmail.

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Well seeing as you are getting a decent processor, I see no reason to over clock. I have nothing against overclocking, but I think thats its only necessary when you have an older system and want to get it going better. Having said that though, If I had a core2duo processor I would overclock it just for the sake of making my computer running that little bit faster.

What im basically trying to say here is that it shouldnt affect the hardware life too much if you only overclock it a bit, but you should only need to overclock it a bit anyway as it is a pretty good processor.
 
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INTELCRAZY

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What will you be doing that would require extra power? OC'ing doesn't help multi-tasking that much, it does help gaming a bit.

Yeah, it does decrease the life of your hardware but, you don't plan on keeping the same PC for 10 years do you? That is a useless fact, it goes outta date before it dies.
 
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thealmightyone

thealmightyone

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Mild overclocking has NO effect whatsoever on the life of components. Heavy overclocking ie increasing voltages do damage components (electron migration I believe).
 
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Schonza

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Overclocking only damages the components when you don't know what you're doing. If you have sufficient cooling and slowly increase things to find out how fair you can get to, you won't damage the components enough to make them die because you get a new system. Just don't do what some people do, by setting all voltages at max before you start ocing..
You should be fine if you do it slowly and knowledgably, but remember, depending on your parts, something may stop it from going a lot further than you may think you can get it to. Temperature is the main thing to watch when ocing, because that's what kills your processor.
 
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curtains

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I'd say overclock. I do it its great. cheap performance. expectially since u have a C2D, there highly overclockable. even if it does die faster, it wont be for round 2 years. and by then ur cpu will be worth nohting anyways and to replace it will be dead cheap. I have E6400 overclocked to 3.2ghz from the stock 2.13ghz i see major performance increase, No tempture increase at all, thou im am running a tower 112 thou with 2 4000rpm fans on it. it idles at 20 degrees and loads on 30degrees max 25 on half load. I can do alota more overclocking but i cant be bothered this is with no voltage up's i got it from 2.13 to 3.2ghz ..

I'd say deffinately do it cause its kinda like free performance increase. like my E6400 is like $100 cheaper than ur E6600 and im outperforming u by a mile if u dont overclock ur's, I'm doing 800mhz more than u and it cost round a $100 lest than ur's think about it...
 
WeatherGeek

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OK... the case that I'm getting (all my stuff is being delivered on Thursday BTW) is the NZXT Apollo - It has 1 120mm fan on the siad and 1 120mm fan in the back. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811146028
I also purchased 1 additional fan http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835129016

My MOBO is the MSI P6N LGA 775 nForce 650i SLI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130081

In terms of gaming, I mainly use Flight Sim. X... very hardware intensive... and in the next month or so will be coming out with SP1, which will contain support for dual core. I think I'll probably overclock it at least a little bit, with some help from here on the forum and other places online.

Also.. my 2gb Patriot eXtreme RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820220144 I may try to overclock, not sure? Will overclocking the RAM be a big help too?
 
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Wiens

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You will love that system! I just built one like it and FSX finally rocks! Get the Samsung 22" widescreen LCD monitor

The SP1 allows FSX to take advantage of multiple core processors including quads.

Kevin
 
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