overclock or not?

nathanael91

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You guys are the geniuses in this modern day of computer age. I am not sure wither to overclock my system or not? I have never done it before and I am personally scared that i will fry up my system which I have carefully put together with the help of several other people in another thread I posted a couple of weeks ago. Please help me also if there is a video showing exactly what to do as I am really nervous doing things for the first time and stuffing it up.
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Definitely overclock, it is fun and rewarding although not totally without risk.
You would be very unlucky to fry anything as long as you take it step by step, monitoring temperatures as you go along.
I suggest you stress the system as it is now, record the temperatures and post them here so that people can confirm your current temperatures/air-flow are decent and establish that the system has been assembled well, CPU cooler well seated etc.

Dave
 
use it first, if you think it's needed, do it, if not leave it as it is and do it later

enjoy it first, just in case you break it :)

most don't use the extra speed unless bench marking, so stress it, bench mark it, then clock it and do same again.

best of all, enjoy it
 
I'd agree with Zak, don't make the decision about overclocking before you've even bought the components, as you've no idea if you need to.

Overclocking can be fun, knowing you're getting something for free and making your stuff work better, but it can also potentially (if rarely) cause problems. They're normally instability issues nowadays, rather than burned out chips and voided warranties, but there's no point making your nice fast computer into a crashy pile of junk.

Try it out, if it's a new system then it's going to be faster than your old one anyway - so just do what you want to do with it and see how it goes. If you find it's slower than you'd like, and is bound by CPU rather than anything else, then try an overclock. Alternately, leave it at lower clock levels for a nice long life, and upgrade it later once you run into something which requires more powerful. At that point, you'll be wanting to upgrade anyway, so you can overclock instead and save your upgrade a little while.
 
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