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smithinator101   06-23-2009 at 07:27:53 AM

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.

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nonxcarbonx   06-23-2009 at 08:20:17 AM
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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?

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deuce271   06-23-2009 at 04:25:02 PM
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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.

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xtream_ocer_intel_nvidia   06-24-2009 at 03:30:42 PM
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yeah thats a good deal, you won't use that computer long enough to know the difference ^^

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jsc   06-25-2009 at 11:57:18 PM
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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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