Is temperature my only worry when overclocking?

over_gamed · 22 Sep 2015 at 15:21

Hi,
so i never did any kind of overclock to my CPU or GPU.
Im not planing to overclock yet

im just curious long time now, is the temperature the only think i have to worry?

Craig321 · 22 Sep 2015 at 15:25

Pretty much. As long as you're within temperature and safe voltages and it's reliable then you should be good to go

dreamcat4 · 23 Sep 2015 at 21:42

Stability. Which is not always going to show up during the stress test. Be sure to also load up whatever demanding apps / games etc.

Most people here recommend to stay below 1.4v at all times.

tyler_jrb · 23 Sep 2015 at 21:53

Voltage + stability mainly. Too high voltage can damage something. Depends what CPU, I had my old 3770k on 1.53v at 5.1ghz ever since i had it which was about a year. Never missed a beat. But its best not to go over or to try stay under 1.35-1.4v while overclocking (CPU). If you want to keep it safe anyway.

Really temperature isnt an issue unless your CPU/GPU is throttling. But as always cooler is better. So no point going from 4.5-4.6ghz if it costs you a significant voltage, temperature increase.

dreamcat4 · 23 Sep 2015 at 22:14

Can reduce temps a bit further with lapping + CLU. However it usually only buys you around 1 extra bin b/c the curve is so steep by then anyway.

C64 · 24 Sep 2015 at 03:45

No there is such a thing as voltage degradation it can vary wildly and nobody knows the exact details but it's definitely real.

So say 4.5ghz requires 1.3 volts stable, after 5 years running at that it might require 1.375 volts to be stable at 4.5 ghz or even way more.

It's not something we can truly monitor or say running over this volt is the point of degradation or this much degrades faster and so on.

Voltage degradation possibly even happens at stock voltage for all we know.

over_gamed · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:32

Thank you all for the replays.
One more question, still im not going to overclock anything at this time but just curiosity.
Is it possible to cause temporary damage the CPU and lets say it will work worst afterwords with no way to fix it, or in case something goes wrong, then the CPU is going to garbage?

MrMD · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:46

over_gamed said:
Thank you all for the replays.
One more question, still im not going to overclock anything at this time but just curiosity.
Is it possible to cause temporary damage the CPU and lets say it will work worst afterwords with no way to fix it, or in case something goes wrong, then the CPU is going to garbage?

only if you were to do something extremely reckless. mobos have plenty of failsafes to stop such things happening.

Its very hard to damage/kill a cpu unless you damage it physically like bent pins or delidding gone wrong

over_gamed · 1 Oct 2015 at 15:37

MrMD said:
only if you were to do something extremely reckless. mobos have plenty of failsafes to stop such things happening.

Its very hard to damage/kill a cpu unless you damage it physically like bent pins or delidding gone wrong

Cool thanks