Quick Voltage question about Overclocking.

xe-cute

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If I don't change the voltage and keep an eye on my temperatures.

Am I right in thinking that I can't possibly damage a CPU?

Is it considered safe to overclock as far as you can without changing voltages and whilst keeping an eye on your temps?

As you can tell I'm a complete noob.

Going to do some reading up, but was just wondering if this was a safe way to start an overclock before getting the confidence to then change voltages for pushing further.

Jeez, hope I'm making some sense here.

Just I am going to order an i7 930 and want to know before hand the risk of an easy overclock (I'd like to get it at 4ghz, but only hwen I get the confidence - Will 1st just want a completely safe easy overclock with no risk).

P.S. Also getting my post count up for free P&P :D
 
Cheers for the help peeps. All of a sudden everything seems so much clearer.

I mean as long as I don't change the voltage and made a critical error with some crazy multiplier than the system would simply not boot up past BIOS. But end of day no harm done. Just need to lower back down the multiplier?

So basically it is safe as houses until you start tweaking the Vcore/voltage (they both same thing?) and that is only when it gets a bit dodgey and hot.

So just keep within that chips max voltage & keep an eye on the temps so they stay within the limit too?
I;m guessing wrong voltages and temps are what blow a CPU and not wrong multiplier.

Wow, sounds so easy now.

(or can voltage & multiplier combine to blow a CPU right away on boot up - as in slight increase in voltage within range, but completely wrong multiplier setting)?

Don't worry I'm going to go off and do some reading too.
I did a few years ago but I've forgot it all hehe. Thank god for Google.
 
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I was thinking of buying this overclocked bundle with the water cooling, but then thought I may as well save the £45 and do it myself (well add the £45 towards a Solid State Drive purchase).

However, I'm not sure yet whether I am comfortable with water cooling as never done one before. I'm in to music production and would love to have a fully quiet system though. Including a passive Direct X 11 GFX card for the odd gaming session (although I do own PS3 & Xbox360 and so not gamed on PC for awhile now - so not that important).

I've never overclocked before that much, usually just an instant auto 5% increase that I know can't do any real damage.

However, I may push things further this time as the benefits of overclocking seems to get greater year-by-year.
 
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