How long would an heavily OCed cpu last.

[kazuya-kun]

Anyways I was wondering in average, how long do OCed cpus last. I currently got a Q6600 G0, atm it's OCed to 3.2 ghz, with a vcore of 1.3. My VID is 1.2375 so its decent, but the temperatures under the Zalman 9700 LED under load is about 55C atm.

Problem is that my computer is on 24/7, and something is always running, since I use dreamscene+ aero temperature usually stay around 40~43C.

Now the real question I'm asking is that if I OC to 3.5ghz or even 3.6ghz and have it on 24/7, with temperatures of about 47~53C (dreamscene+aero so idle) and at load of 67~71C and if I recall using vcore of 1.42~1.45 how long would the CPU last?

I need to have my CPU running fine for around 5~8 years without hiccups. Even though I'm OCing within specifications they are rather close to the limits.

 

[rodney_ws]

EIGHT YEARS? I'd expect the motherboard to fail before that... or a PSU... or maybe a fan will go out taking another component with it. Are you sure you're being realistic when you say 8 years? If that's REALLY your goal I'd definitely clock it back down to stock and keep the room at a stable temperature.

Man, that's a LONG time.

 

[timaahhh]

Yea that is a long long time. Erm in 8 years a budget CPU should kill a Core 2 Quad so yea with those low voltages you should have to worry too much about your CPU u prolly will have to bump them up every once in a while but you should be fine.

 

[kazuya-kun]

Ahh crap I guess those are too long... Hmm I guess for 3~5 years. 5 years being very unlikely... I was just thinking it could hold out till the 22nm or 2nd revision of the 32nm comes out.

Speaking of mobos... I'm using an ASUS X38 P5E

 

[funnyman06]

I have an Opteron 165 at 2.7 Ghz, its already almost 4 years old. Time on the CPU should not be your concern, its everything else you need to worry about. The Motherboard will go bad before anything else I'm guessing. Capacitors only last so long.

 

[sailer]

At a low voltage and overclock of 3.2ghz, I'd guess a Q6600 should last 5 years, maybe a bit longer. As you go up in power and speed, the CPU burns up faster, so it might last 5 years, but it might not. A different consideration is that the Q6600 is reaching the end of its production cycle, and even if it does last many years, software and other advances may render it on the less useful side. Instead of being able for heavy gaming or business use, it could be reduced to the status of doing word processing and internet surfing. Think about it, how many 8-10 year old computers are in use right now, and why aren't they very useful? The Q6600 will most likely have the same status in 8-10 years.

 

[iluvgillgill]

even if im being positive to the CPU able to last 8 years but im 100% guarrantee you the mobo will fail much earlier!!! since there is always something passing the mobo parts(data) so yeah big nono!!

 

[marshmellow1991]

how long does a mobo last generaly?

 

[one-shot]

A friend of mine had a board for his Celeron 2.4ghz. So you can imagine its a few years old. I think it was build in 2004 and the board died fall of 2006. I've been running a MSI board for over 2 years and its just fine still. Now I'm using a Gigabyte board and I really don't care how long it lasts. If it dies it just means I can get a X38 board and not feel guilty about wasting a board. I'm sure a few years isn't unreasonable depending on the quality of the board.

 

[kazuya-kun]

A friend of mine had a board for his Celeron 2.4ghz. So you can imagine its a few years old. I think it was build in 2004 and the board died fall of 2006. I've been running a MSI board for over 2 years and its just fine still. Now I'm using a Gigabyte board and I really don't care how long it lasts. If it dies it just means I can get a X38 board and not feel guilty about wasting a board. I'm sure a few years isn't unreasonable depending on the quality of the board.

But aren't old boards considerably less "durable" than today's boards... i.e X38 mobos or the P5Q or even t he X48 considering most of the capacitors are now solid state if I recall... Don't quite remember.

 

[V3NOM]

i got a 12 ish old board, still works fine even if its not in a system atm... LOL

 

[jamesgoddard]

My second PC is a 6 year old Athlon XP oc'd to 2.5GHz - running fine... To the OP - your PC may last 8 years, or it fay fail a day after warranty expires - there is no way to tell..

 

[jamesgoddard]

Oh - I also have a 25 year old Amstrad 8086 that boots and works just fine

 

[V3NOM]

hehe sell it on ebay as an antique

 

[TeraMedia]

I'm typing this on a 1 GHz 2001 PIII. Having lots of tabs in IE doesn't work so great, but just a few works fine.

If you really need to OC, then OC. By the time the CPU goes, a better replacement should be rather inexpensive I would think. But if you're doing it just for kicks, then perhaps you should use hardware you can afford to lose.

 

[V3NOM]

use google chrome! much less CPU and RAM intensive

 

[iluvgillgill]

firefox!!!

 

[V3NOM]

grrrrrr nao! firefox=troll

 

[iluvgillgill]

FIREFOX FTW!!! Chrome still need alot of fine tune and patches to fix up its issues.

 

[V3NOM]

issues? what are these issues you speak of! none as far as i can see in my daily browsing... btw are you really logged onto msn lol? either you're ignoring me epically, or your msn is stuffed or something >.>

 

[iluvgillgill]

my laptop/desktop is on 24/7 through out the year and when i sleep that when you come online so you know.maybe weekend we can "meet up"LOL

 

[V3NOM]

yeah, i reckon it's probably only the weekend where we can properly have a convo lol.. time zones suck school sucks! life su- hang on i'm not an emo!

:lol: 24/7 pc's

 

[Superhal]

i've had about 12 computers since 1984, and without exception, nearly all had the motherboard die first. on several computers, i replaced the motherboard repeatedly. so to answer your question, yes, higher voltage/heavy usage will cause your computer not to last as long, but probably you'll get motherboard problems before cpu problems.