How long can you keep an overclocked pc on?

i keep my q6600 at 3.4ghz on 24/7 and i am on air cooling (tuniq) as long as your temps are ok then u should be fine...
 
platinum87 said:
thats serious balls right there
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Why? As several people have said, any deterioration over time still leaves a life-span of at least eight to ten years, at which point the CPU is so obsolete it probably won't run any recent software anyway. As I said, my record for an overclocked chip running 24/7 is four years, and in the end it was the motherboard that died (leaking capacitors) not the CPU. I've heard of five years plus as full speed.


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my brothers overclocked (opteron 165) pc has been on 24/7 for the last year at least (with the exception of a few nights here and there)

The funny thing is the only time it did die was a psu problem when he turned it off. (hiper psu say no more eh) it would not switch back on...lol

changed the psu over and its been going ever since.
 
I felt ashamed of running the same chip for two years before and as i get more income and boredom, i doubt this one will see it's first xmas ha.
 
3.15ghz 24/7 - all day/night folding with all 4 cores @ 100 load.

no hassles at all - could probably clock it higher but don't really have the time to test etc.

I think someone reckoned once that an overclocked pc generally reduces the lifespan of the cpu from 10 year to 7 years but since people upgrade 1/2/3 times a year it's not really anything to consider.
 
I've been running overclocked CPUs flat out with SETI and Folding@Home for a good 5-6 years and have never harmed a CPU through it. Just swapped out my E6300 which was OCed from 1.86 to 3.15 and ran F@H almost 24/7 for a year or so... it's still as good as the day I bought it. Now I'm doing the same with my Q6600.
 
My PC is very very rarely at idle. I'm constantly folding on it, and leave it on for weeks at a time.

The PC is now 2 years old and I've seen no degradation in performance or stability. I've been on air and now on water
 
Extra heat will cause electromigration quicker right? So by increasing the voltage, but reducing the heat, surely it is not going to make much difference?
 
My CPU is about 18mth old now and I have really hammered it, high overclocks and high temps, it loves it.
tried to kill it, but it wont have it, dont matter what I do to it.
 
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