Overclocking & Maintainance

TerrXL

TerrXL

TerrXL

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Hi there everyone. Just a quick question. I'm building my fiancee a basic gaming build and have recently just found out that the game she plays is more cpu intensive than gpu. Since I cannot afford to get her anything more than Athlon II X4 630, I've decided to OC the CPU.

However, after I build it and set up OC, I will be shipping the PC out to her in the US and will not be able to help her should anything go wrong/need aftercare. So my question is, if I OC it to around 3.2 (not really pushing it much), set up cooling for her with fan controller on the case which displays temp etc. short of cleaning out the dust inside, what else would she have to do to maintain the thing? After OC is set up and tested as stable by me, will the PC function just as a normal none OC'd build would? Will she have to mess around in BIOS for anything?

Obviously this does not include unforseeable failures, instability etc. because that kind of stuff could happen to any PC build and she can just call in a tech to help her fix it. I'm talking about just general maintainance of a OC'd CPU.

Thanks for any help!
 
If you are not there to help if it goes wrong I would find the stable voltages (as in fullt stability tested) then up each one (that is related to the overclock) up one notch just to be completely sure of stability.

I wouldn't bother overclocking at all though as you will get phone calls and/or emails whining about it!
I only overclock for myself and brothers. My brothers are fully aware that if an OC fails then it isn't 'matt broke the pc'.
 
surely if anything went wrong she could clear the cmos and be back to stock settings? changing the TIM id say comes under maintenance every now and then
 
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