Athlon speed ? Help *DELETED*

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[74merc]

I'd go with the BIOS, Sandra has never been that accurate...

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[killall]

its not unusual to get into the low 50s if you overclock (or have a very bad heat sink and fan) but apparently for every 10 degrees you raise your cpu temperature rises it loses half its life if constantly on (eg 35 degrees 16 years... 45 degrees 8 years... 55 degrees 4 years and so on) but those are not the numbers and im not quite sure about how long an athlon would live for in the first place... or any of the newer chips as they havent been around for long enough to see have the... id believe the bios if i were you then you can complain to your motherboard manufacturer if something goes wrong as your warranty from amd is already void as you overclock but anyway... good luck...

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Yep, thanks for your replies so far!
Yes I agree about going with the bios readings.

Interesting to hear about temperatures decreasing the life of the components too, but in 4 -8 years what I have will be seriously out of date going on what I hear in Toms reviews.
No point tempting fate though......

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