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| 663124 | 2008-04-29 21:20:00 | Also read into that - the moment you overclock a component theres a very good chance you can kiss goodbye to the components Warranty, as you are running it at a higher spec than it was designed to run at. Over clocking voids the warranty, shortens the Components life, usually creates more heat, and if over clocked to much will make the system unstable. Great statement about overclocking 10 years ago lol Now to present day, manufacture processes on modern silicon is so good there is very little binning occurring. Most product is market down due to marketing necessity (with multiplier locked lower being the main difference on CPU's). As for shortening the life span, that to is hugely debatable. Try telling that to my old P2 266 clocked at 400MHZ that ran for around 6 years before I replaced it (got demoted a few times lol). How about my AMD 3000 1.8gig now hitting 4 years running at 2.8 gig (currently in a fileserver) just the long standing examples. For the most part if you are sensible, a overclocked CPU will last as long as you require it. As for voiding warranty, its not really an issue as above, and there is no way to tell you overclocked it if it failed (assuming you return just the processor). Overclocking is not for everyone, just read up yourself about "current' overclocking and make up your own mind, there are dozens of enthusiast forums. Overclocking is now a safe valid option to save money. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 663125 | 2008-04-30 07:26:00 | Overclocking is supported by some companies, as long as you use their own tools that they provided for overclocking. however, these tools don't really let you improve your speed so much, so yes, overclocking via your BIOS does void your warranty. Some hardware does support overclocking (expensive ones) but when you overclock crazily and fry it, yes, its gone. | SPARTAN 860 (2618) | ||
| 663126 | 2008-04-30 08:03:00 | Great statement about overclocking 10 years ago lol Now to present day, manufacture processes on modern silicon is so good there is very little binning occurring. Most product is market down due to marketing necessity (with multiplier locked lower being the main difference on CPU's). As for shortening the life span, that to is hugely debatable. Try telling that to my old P2 266 clocked at 400MHZ that ran for around 6 years before I replaced it (got demoted a few times lol). How about my AMD 3000 1.8gig now hitting 4 years running at 2.8 gig (currently in a fileserver) just the long standing examples. For the most part if you are sensible, a overclocked CPU will last as long as you require it. As for voiding warranty, its not really an issue as above, and there is no way to tell you overclocked it if it failed (assuming you return just the processor). Overclocking is not for everyone, just read up yourself about "current' overclocking and make up your own mind, there are dozens of enthusiast forums. Overclocking is now a safe valid option to save money. Well you tell that to a customer of mine late last year, He called me after damaging the pc -over clocking, 2 months old , it went all pear shaped and when he tried to claim the warranty he was refused - It was a Compaq PC, and they inspected it and told him warranty voided as it had been over clocked.. The tell tale sign was the voltage had been fiddled with, and a real obvious burn mark on the CPU. The reason he called was no one else he phoned would touch Compaq to repair the damage components. Tell you what - if someone takes your advice and over clocks and a warranty is voided, I assume you will gladly reimburse that person the replacement price because of the advice given. While some components can be over clocked by the manufactures inbuilt tools, some people still push it to far. I have seen several that have had the CPU over clocked and run as unstable as hell. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 663127 | 2008-04-30 08:55:00 | Urg CPU overclocks... at least GPUs are designed to be overclocked. Sometimes, overclocking seems to be rather close to overcooking. | SPARTAN 860 (2618) | ||
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