How bad is over clocking for your cpu?

[smithinator101]

i was wondering how bad it is to overclock your cpu and also how much damage would you do to a cpu if you only overclocked it once from 3.16 ghz to 3.6 ghz ( in a core 2 duo ) the reason i ask is i got offered a great deal on the 3.16ghz core 2 duo that has only been overclocked once for a brief amount of time to about 3.6ghz, is this a good deal? thanks in advance.

 

[nonxcarbonx]

I suppose that they probably had good cooling, and overclocking only takes a bit of lifespan off a cpu. But who uses the same cpu for 10 years, right?

 

[Guest]

It depends on the OC. How long it was OC'd, what FSB was used, what cooling was used, how responsible the OCer was. Etc.

Bad OC's dont last long, responsible OCers can have their CPUs run near 24/7 for years and years.

 

[xtream_ocer_intel_nvidia]

yeah thats a good deal, you won't use that computer long enough to know the difference ^^

 

[jsc]

I have never had a chip fail because of overclocking, and I've been doing this a long time. I have replaced a couple of P4's that fried when fans died in work computers.
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Overclocking since 1978 - Z80 (TRS-80) from 1.77 MHz to 2.01 MHz