Life expectansy for OC 2500k

legraudal

legraudal

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Hello,
I've overclocked my i5 2500k @4 Ghz..
I'm wondering about the life expectansy for this processor as it is OC'ed at the stock voltage and it's cooled by the CM-Hyper TX3 with an extra fan.

What are the "normal" temperatures for this cooling solution? And how long can i expect this CPU to compute correctly?

Regards legraudal
 
I've never had a cpu die of old age, even when overclocked. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if it lasted 20 years.
You'll be bored of it and wanting an upgrade long before it breaks.
 
You can expect it to last a lot longer than you will be using it, even with an OC.

Besides, you shouldn't really need to be running an OC 24/7 anyway. So just keep it at stock when not in use and bump it up when your gaming.
 
Expect it to survive longer than you will keep the computer...even if you never plan on buying another computer.
 
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As gurusan says, it'll probably not die in your lifetime through normal use. Your motherboard or PSU will die long before the CPU does.
 
Yeah CPU's are definitely the most resilient components as long as you don't pump dangerously high voltages through them 24/7.

The capacitors on the motherboard are likely to die long before the CPU does and most of those nowadays are rated @50,000hrs, which works out at about 11yrs with 12hrs usage a day.
 
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Not unless it's dangerously overheating, overclocking does push the motherboard VRM's harder so it might knock a tiny bit of life off the motherboard in the log run.
 
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mmj_uk said:
Not unless it's dangerously overheating, overclocking does push the motherboard VRM's harder so it might knock a tiny bit of life off the motherboard in the log run.
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What is dangerously overheating, in degrees? I'm pretty new at overclocking as you might have found out.. And how much will it knock of the mobo?
 
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valkynaz said:
You can expect it to last a lot longer than you will be using it, even with an OC.

Besides, you shouldn't really need to be running an OC 24/7 anyway. So just keep it at stock when not in use and bump it up when your gaming.
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Which is why you enable speedstep/turbo isn't it :confused:

When im sat in windows my CPU sits quite low (around 2ghz), then when video encoding/gaming it does up to my OC of 4.6ghz

Never have to go in and change any settings
 
valkynaz said:
Besides, you shouldn't really need to be running an OC 24/7 anyway. So just keep it at stock when not in use and bump it up when your gaming.
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glen8 said:
Which is why you enable speedstep/turbo isn't it :confused:

When im sat in windows my CPU sits quite low (around 2ghz), then when video encoding/gaming it does up to my OC of 4.6ghz

Never have to go in and change any settings
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This ^^^

It only pumps up to the overclock speed when needed, otherwise it will idle below 2.0ghz.
 
Using stock volts and keeping it from overheating (80+ for sustained periods I guess) will mean it won't degrade any quicker than if you hadn't overclocked.
 
As above.....keeping it within TDP and Stock voltages wont affect its life span at all.

Proccessors can in theory last a lifetime; the Space Shuttle is still using its orginal Intel CPU's from 40 Years ago :) and so a mildover clock may knock 10% of that life from it and still with you enough years to have upgraded about 10 times!
 
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