General Question

AWhetstone99 · 01-18-2009, 11:11 AM

Does overclocking reduce the life of your components even if you add things like more fans as well as an aftermarket CPU fan/heatsink?

**grimx133** · 01-18-2009, 11:45 AM

What reduces the life of components are heat and overvoltage. As long as the heat is kept down and voltages do not go above specifications, you won't shorten the lifespan. Even if it didto a slight degree, by the time that came into play you would have long moved on to another cpu. So, depending on the system, a mild to moderate overclock will not harm it. It's the extreme clocks that get dangerous. If you plan on doing any, research first, there's a lot of good reading out there. Blindly flailing away at your bios isn't a good plan. If you haven't already, read the sticky. if you are new to overclocking / read here for starters

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grimx133 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Canada eh Posts: 3,162 OS: xp mce sp2, xp pro sp2, windows 7 beta My System	Re: General Question What reduces the life of components are heat and overvoltage. As long as the heat is kept down and voltages do not go above specifications, you won't shorten the lifespan. Even if it didto a slight degree, by the time that came into play you would have long moved on to another cpu. So, depending on the system, a mild to moderate overclock will not harm it. It's the extreme clocks that get dangerous. If you plan on doing any, research first, there's a lot of good reading out there. Blindly flailing away at your bios isn't a good plan. If you haven't already, read the sticky. if you are new to overclocking / read here for starters __________________