- May 17, 2001
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I was being bothered by a few jealous people the other day after explaining that I have been overclocking my 1GHZ Athlon to 1.4GHZ. They seem to believe that Overclocking endangers the CPU for whatever reason. I had thought that as long as heat was fairly low and Vcore was within 10%, the CPU was in no danger. Which is correct?
One guy said that the heating and cooling of the CPU due to shutdown and startup caused the Core to expand and contract dangrously...is this BS?
For example; At standard voltage (1.75)my T-bird hits 1.4GHZ at temps around 50C and no higher than 52C, and plenty stable. I doubt that there is any danger, but what do you gurus think? I would hope for at least 2 more years of life out of this proccie, is that plausible under my circumstances?
One guy said that the heating and cooling of the CPU due to shutdown and startup caused the Core to expand and contract dangrously...is this BS?
For example; At standard voltage (1.75)my T-bird hits 1.4GHZ at temps around 50C and no higher than 52C, and plenty stable. I doubt that there is any danger, but what do you gurus think? I would hope for at least 2 more years of life out of this proccie, is that plausible under my circumstances?