what exactilly holds a CPU back from overclocking as much as you want?

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Is it just the heat, is it the motherboard, combo? If your motherboard could infinitely do so, what would hold the CPU from doing it? If the CPU was cooled to handle any heat and the motherboard could go on forever then would the CPU just fail?
 
Generally it's the motherboard not support high enough FSB's (or HTT for AMD's), or the lack of memory dividers, voltage controls, etc.

You can have liquid nitrogen, but if you only have value RAM and the cheapest motherboard, you wont be able to OC high at all.
 
Like Geoff said, it's mostly a combination of the component's limits that forms the actual barrier of overclocking... as for:

ADE said:
If the CPU was cooled to handle any heat and the motherboard could go on forever then would the CPU just fail?
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probably not... sooner or later the limits of technology will be reached... i mean the chips were made to perform @ a certain level, they weren't made to overclock forever... the current limits of the technology you have is a definition of how far you can overclock...

you can't take a Pentium I and a Core 2 Duo and expect them to achieve the same clock speed can you? :P...
 
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goosy22 said:
Like Geoff said, it's mostly a combination of the component's limits that forms the actual barrier of overclocking... as for:



probably not... sooner or later the limits of technology will be reached... i mean the chips were made to perform @ a certain level, they weren't made to overclock forever... the current limits of the technology you have is a definition of how far you can overclock...

you can't take a Pentium I and a Core 2 Duo and expect them to achieve the same clock speed can you? :P...
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well, i suppose, that in the chips little 'switches' as praetor called them, they can only be emptied so fast. the speed of electricity. i dont know what that speed is, but whatever it is, that is the cpu limit (nevermind the mobo, multiplier,)

EDIT: think its somewhere around 500ghz lol jk
 
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