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tlarkin
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over clocking is simply there for one reason, to make little nerdy kids more uber to nerdy people. In reality over clocking really does not increase any kind of major performance, and it creates what is called bottle necks. Of course getting it to work properly can be done but also puts more stress on your hardware making it susceptible or more prone to hardware failure.
Its kind of like putting NOS in your car. Sure it gives that speed boost but your engine block isn't bullet proof and in the long run it will cause more damage than good.
Not to mention processors are by design already over clocked at the factory. You really only see it in the hardcore gamer part of computer users, and really no where else. You would never ever see anyone over clock their server at work.
It is something for the hobbyist overall, and though arguably it can increase some performances in computing, but overall nothing real world in my experience. The difference between 60fps and 70fps no human would really be able to tell the difference, though the elitist know it all will definitely argue the point that they can.
Its kind of like putting NOS in your car. Sure it gives that speed boost but your engine block isn't bullet proof and in the long run it will cause more damage than good.
Not to mention processors are by design already over clocked at the factory. You really only see it in the hardcore gamer part of computer users, and really no where else. You would never ever see anyone over clock their server at work.
It is something for the hobbyist overall, and though arguably it can increase some performances in computing, but overall nothing real world in my experience. The difference between 60fps and 70fps no human would really be able to tell the difference, though the elitist know it all will definitely argue the point that they can.
I doubt that you can fry your CPU/MOBO if your careful. If you go over its not like your computer will catch on fire or something, if you take it slow and easy until it reaches your wanted place it will work fine. The best way to fry them is turning the voltage with a huge jump, or a 50MHZ jump or something. Overclocking isnt really needed but it can gain some performance
Love the Nos heh ? too bad it costs so much
im not going to fry my rings or sling a rod though=) ill live with 170HP. 
tlarkin
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For the record, if you have too high of voltage running through your system you can blow what is called a MOSFet chip, they are designed to blow out first in case of a voltage flux on a motherboard. I have seen this happen myself in person on a unstable system. Overclocking decreases your stability.
Things are designed to run at x volts and at x amps, when you start messing around with that you can easily fry something. Just remember thermal dynamics, things typically expand when heated, and if expanded enough could easily become damaged.
Things are designed to run at x volts and at x amps, when you start messing around with that you can easily fry something. Just remember thermal dynamics, things typically expand when heated, and if expanded enough could easily become damaged.
Well my cmoputer is pretty stable, no bsods or freezes/reboots. no overheating. If it gets unstable a bit I start messing with the voltages
havent fried anything yetMaybe you can help me with this, noone has answered this wquestion:
Long story short, overclocked a slot 1 400MHZ cpu by 50%, to 600Mhz. I didnt looka t the temps, with was 82C (or close to that) idle... then I started benchmarking it... continuously. after a few hours it restarted, and booted up again, looking at the temps it was 88c+ ... Ive installed a better fan (that was not intended to be there) and i got it down to 50c... was there any everlasting damage?
tlarkin
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most likely no, but that is normal behavior. When a system over heats, it will shut itself off preventing it from damaging itself. So if you get shutdowns after periods of use it could be due to the fact that it was over heating. That is a fail safe.
Most of the time you won't damage your hardware because it was shut off before it hit any kind of critical state, but that doesn't mean that you haven't put wear and tear on it. If it happens repeatedly then you can have longer lasting issues.
Most of the time you won't damage your hardware because it was shut off before it hit any kind of critical state, but that doesn't mean that you haven't put wear and tear on it. If it happens repeatedly then you can have longer lasting issues.