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overclockin shortnes the life?
Name: o-i-got-it Date: February 18, 2005 at 19:39:57 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 448
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does overclockin tha ati radeon 9600 shorten its life i havea really good cooling
Name: Cody (by kerodude3058) Date: February 18, 2005 at 19:42:50 Pacific
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not if u know what ur doing and u dont over do it...but htere is risk in all overclocking
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Response Number 2
Name: o-i-got-it Date: February 18, 2005 at 19:53:41 Pacific
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I am thinking to increase by 2-5 each time and run a aquamark 3 to see whats happening my perticular card i read some ppl that overclocked they got the core up to 530 and memory round 350
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Response Number 3
Name: houston1981 Date: February 18, 2005 at 20:56:12 Pacific
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You would very rarely ever come to the end of a lifespan anyway. The companies say that it shortens the lifespan but nobody really says by how much.
Name: mrx Date: February 18, 2005 at 23:03:16 Pacific
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overclockin shortnes the life?
its called 'electromigration' the process where the chip is going to fast or it is to hot and eventually the electricity going around in the cpu wears it out and it doesnt work anymore. i think that is what hapened to my pentium mmx 166 when i had it at 225 a while ago. i had the voltage way way to high, and that could of done it also. but it lasted for about 6 months okay!
Mr X
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Response Number 5
Name: houston1981 Date: February 19, 2005 at 00:51:24 Pacific
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I would hazard to say that newer chips would be more tolerent to higher temps/speed etc can someone confirm this?
Check the detailed specs at the ATI site, i think they tell you what the max threshold etc is.
Summary: m8 if i was you i wouldnt bother with overclockin get a new mobo (prefrably an MSI KT4 ultra MS-6590) and get an athlonXP 2700+ CPU when there availible (dunno if there available yet) then theres no n...
Summary: Actually, he is correct, but possibly from a different standpoint; It's not the extra few mz on the processor that ups the benchmarks, its the ramping up the memory speed that makes the substantial di...
Summary: of course it could fry your cpu. And also it will run hotter than it should so be prepared to buy a better cooling device if your temp's go up. And keep in mind that it will also shorten the life of...
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