davie23223
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Will downclocking and overclocking back and forth do damage to the cpu or anything else?
thats the real quesion, why do you need to overclock and underclock it many times? I'd say a few times is ok, but i wouldnt go doing it several times a day.fade2green514 said:i dont know why you would want to underclock it tho!
When you overclock, you do reduce the life time of the processor. But it usually doesnt effect you since by the time that would happen, you would mosty likely have a new processor.suprasteve said:if it's good and stable at the overclock speed (and nothing too crazy) it'll probably be fine there, if it looks like things might start failing, drop the speed
thing you have got a little confused over what is generating the heat in question.downclocking shouldnt, overclocking may overheat some items. its not easy to tell whats overheating, most of the time its too high of fsb, ram speed, or cpu speed.
I can think of serveral reasons, i downclock my media center so as to run it passive, but then when i need to encode a couple of vidoes overnight i will oc it and turn on the fanthats the real quesion, why do you need to overclock and underclock it many times? I'd say a few times is ok, but i wouldnt go doing it several times a day.