Dangers of Overclocking?

Product FRED said:

I'm aware. I was summarizing. Hence I said not trying to
downplay it.

My point is that you made it sound like it was literally the only issue, which is wasn't.

~Lordbob

For what it's worth, will add my comments as well ...

I overclocked for YEARS -- but that was back in the days when you could get really enormous speed gains and the heat issue was easily addressed with aftermarket coolers.

I still continue to follow the overclocking community (see the HardOCP website, for an example), and while they CAN get amazing results, it is a lot more work these days, and really outstanding results require radical solutions like LN2 cooling.

Given the rapid advancement in hardware performance gains, I would have to join with the others here and say that today, it's general not worth the risk of damage from overheating and system instability to gain a very small increase in performance.

archie123 said:

~Lordbob

Mark Phelps said:

I overclocked for YEARS -- but that was back in the days when you could get really enormous speed gains and the heat issue was easily addressed with aftermarket coolers.

It guess it depends on what constitutes as 'enormous'.

I personally notice the difference between 2.6ghz and 4.0ghz, but that's not what I'd consider 'enormous' - however it's still easy to achieve and keep cool on air alone.

Then again, it's a desktop and not a lappy.

archie123 said:

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archie123 said:

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Lordbob75 said:

3. Total Catastrophic Failure. This is not an official name, but it sounded cool. This is also really really hard to do. This is where your CPU basically melts by going WAY outside of its safe ranges. And no, it's not a joke. You can LITERALLY melt your CPU. While this will probably never happen (other things would break WAY before this), it is the ultimate failure.


~Lordbob

LOL I (on purpose) did this to my old laptop (gift of my dad). Was an old HP from the 1999's :) After 5 Months trying to sell it on eBay @ $$75.00, just decided to kill it. I OC'd it sooooo CRAZY!!!! OC'ed EVERYTHING and set XXXX off(whatever the setting that allows the laptop to turn off when it reaches max heat point) so it just... died... And it didn't turn on again :)

DarkDavil said:

Lordbob75 said:

3. Total Catastrophic Failure. This is not an official name, but it sounded cool. This is also really really hard to do. This is where your CPU basically melts by going WAY outside of its safe ranges. And no, it's not a joke. You can LITERALLY melt your CPU. While this will probably never happen (other things would break WAY before this), it is the ultimate failure.


~Lordbob

LOL I (on purpose) did this to my old laptop (gift of my dad). Was an old HP from the 1999's :) After 5 Months trying to sell it on eBay @ $$75.00, just decided to kill it. I OC'd it sooooo CRAZY!!!! OC'ed EVERYTHING and set XXXX off(whatever the setting that allows the laptop to turn off when it reaches max heat point) so it just... died... And it didn't turn on again :)

~Lordbob