Does Overclocking Damage your CPU?

ask him to sit down next time he speaks to give his mouth a chance.

my barton has run at 2.5ghz for about 3 years, day in day out. it loves it, it told me so
 
My Xp1700 has been ran at 2500Mhz a week after i got it, and stayed there. Only retired it a few weeks ago...

Electromigration Does happen, but with the upgrade cycle of the average poster on here, it soesn't make a difference. Even I, who lags quite a bit behind bleeding edge, won't see that effect. As long as you are sensible (less than 1.6v into most A64's will be fine), and have decent cooling (<50c), then you'll be fine. Tell your friend to read up some before he starts spouting carp.
 
hello
my only cpu to die was a intel LGA 3.6ghz i ran it at 4.2ghz 1.75v on air 24/7...temps were 60-80c

ran for whole year before it crapped....
 
Zefan said:
What I meant by "Volts don't kill" is "Reasonable volts" not stupid unecessary volts. He should never need to stick more than 1.5 through it for a decnt overclock - which will not damag his components noticably. Obviously if your cpu is struck by lightning IT WILL DIE. I'll remember to state th obvious next time I post
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Mine got hit by lightening couple of years ago. Was on a surge protector so must have been through phone line into usb modem. Took out cpu, board, psu, floppy but everything else survived (even modem)


The increase in volts can cause some electrons to jump inside the cpu into other channels. Keeping it cool reduces the energy of these electrons so helps minimise this. If this happens a lot then a "path" almost forms at that point and causes even more chance of it to happen. Wouldnt worry about it until you go past 1.65v and with that many volts you should be running good air or water and so keep temps low enough to keep electron energy low enough. amd have 3yr retail warranty so if it breaks it will be replaced (if dont mention o/c). Past 3yrs and chip is worthless anyway.
 
hello matt82 :)
yes 100% stable
as new temps at 3.6 were only 24c....so @ 4.2ghz...1.75v...temps rose to 36c idle about 55c under load
but over time it just slowly got hotter was 66c most of the time upto 80c playing games...but after just over 1 year it blue screened......then wouldnt boot again
but i was happy it lasted that long :) u gotta love intel for that
 
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