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If I would set my phenom 955 to run at 760MHz over nights instead of 3200MHz will it damage it?

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That's called under clocking, it should be fine. I would lower the voltage down for the power and heat. I do this on an intel q6600, and instead of 2.4ghz I run 800Mhz. Works great for light usage, like file transfers and internet browsing.

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Thanks

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netto just enable cool a quiet, while you are browsing and light work the CPU automatically underclocks and goes to normal clockspeed when needed.

------------------------------ AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 (4.0 GHz|1.36 volts|236 X 17),Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H, 6 GB DDR2 800 RAM (unganged), 2 X 1TB, 1 X 500GB | 22" BenQ Wide Screen monitor, Zalman CNSP cooler
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it's perfectly safe. if you do that, also lower the voltage as low as possible so you can reduce heat and power like festerovic said.

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as lashton said, with cool'n quiet it will do it by itself when idling anyway.
Use CPU-Z to watch the cpu frequency in real time.

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