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Originally Posted by Cricket
Overclocking doesn't reduce CPU life by half...where did you hear that? Aside from guys frying their overclocked CPUs with too much vcore voltage, I've never heard of any CPUs just giving up or dying just because it was overclocked. I've never heard of a non-overclocked CPU just dying from use either...it's usually from a cheap power supply sending a huge spike to the system or from lightening strikes.
And if you're going to overclock you don't want to do it with cheap parts...cheap parts will fold under the stresses of overclocking. You buy good quality parts because they can tolerate the rigors of overclocking better than cheap parts.
Where are you getting your information?
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I agree, Cricket, except when talking about the Northwood chips. Anything over 1.6ish volts and it might run fine for 3 months then one day just fry all at once, SNDS.
Its hard to say what is a good OC or not. most of the time you can get more mhz out of an Intel over an AMD, but the AMD will get more of a performance boost from it so even at a "lower" OC it runs faster.
Also different chips OC differently. I have a P4 3.2 that will load windows at 4Ghz, 800mhz more thats a 25% OC! But I also took a P75mhz chip and clocked it at 133mhz, only 58mhz more which is a 77% OC!
If it looks good to you and its as far as you can go then its a good OC!