Overclocking's Effects on Hardware Life

[0roo0roo]

http://www.eas.asu.edu/~schroder/Electromigration.pdf

http://www.cadence.com/whitepapers/electromigration.html

 

[Lifer]

i don't see any benefits in o/c.
i'm not going to notice a p4 2.0 running much faster than a p4 2.4 ghz.

and to answer the question, depends on how much it's been o/c'd and if you upped the voltage and added proper cooling.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

I don't plan on overclocking either, but I have noticed some people forgot to mention the time frame in their computer stories. These people might want to edit previous posts. This is not for my benefit, but for the two people asking about this issue early in this thread.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Lifer
i don't see any benefits in o/c.
i'm not going to notice a p4 2.0 running much faster than a p4 2.4 ghz.

and to answer the question, depends on how much it's been o/c'd and if you upped the voltage and added proper cooling.

i certainly notice the difference between my 1800 and when its oc to 3300+. i'm guessing since 2.4ghz xp's don't really exist so pr ratings are guess. if you game you might notice, esp if game was borderline to begin with. or if your compressing someithing.

 

[RickH]

Overclocking is not free. You save a few dollars on a processor, but you spend $50 on extra fans. Is it worth it?? If you can keep the AGP/PCI bus speeds in line, and use almost a stock core voltage, give it a try. I have been OC Intels for years with only one problem. I had a BX motherboard and Celeron 566@850 with the voltage increased from 1.5 to 1.65 volts. It worked fine for 2.5 years. One day something smelled funny, the air coming out of the power supply fan felt like the air from a hair dryer. The entire case was hot to the touch. The MB was fried. If I hadn't have been there, I am sure it would have caught fire. The motherboard just wasn't designed to deliver that much current to the processor. It took a long time, but it failed. RRRRRRR

PS I convinced Intel to give me a new processor. I bought a "new" old motherboard from Justdeals.com for $35 shipped and the old computer--power supply included is running again. Maybe I will get a fire extinguisher for my office.
R

 

[Brian48]

I haven't had a processor die on me yet (can't say the same for video cards though), but that's mainly because after a year or two of use, it's usually sold off to someone or regulated to a purpose where I don't need to have it overclocked. Of the longest running periods I've kept track of:

P200MMX @ 233mhz since mid-1997
PII333 @ 400mhz for about 2 years before I sold it.
C300a @ 450mhz for about 2.5 years before I sold it.

All my current o/c'd AMD processors are less than a year old so I don't count them yet.

 

[GreatDaleness]

Originally posted by: RickH
Overclocking is not free. You save a few dollars on a processor, but you spend $50 on extra fans. Is it worth it?? If you can keep the AGP/PCI bus speeds in line, and use almost a stock core voltage, give it a try. I have been OC Intels for years with only one problem. I had a BX motherboard and Celeron 566@850 with the voltage increased from 1.5 to 1.65 volts. It worked fine for 2.5 years. One day something smelled funny, the air coming out of the power supply fan felt like the air from a hair dryer. The entire case was hot to the touch. The MB was fried. If I hadn't have been there, I am sure it would have caught fire. The motherboard just wasn't designed to deliver that much current to the processor. It took a long time, but it failed. RRRRRRR

PS I convinced Intel to give me a new processor. I bought a "new" old motherboard from Justdeals.com for $35 shipped and the old computer--power supply included is running again. Maybe I will get a fire extinguisher for my office.
R

Barton 2500+ = $87
Barton 3200+ =$315

Good luck finding a $228 HSF

 

[0roo0roo]

my cpu and processor cost 70 dollars including tax i overclocked it to match that 300 dollar cpu, now the hsf i bought only cost me 25 dollars.

 

[RickH]

Excuse me -----GreatDaleness, I can't hear you because of all your fans.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

Originally posted by: bw2314
woah speedfreak your from bear, DE? Awesome Im from new castle Ive never even met anyone else online that was from DE!

yep i used to live in wilmington but i moved to bear about 8 months ago. lol i never met anyone else either haha small state!

 

[GreatDaleness]

Originally posted by: RickH
Excuse me -----GreatDaleness, I can't hear you because of all your fans.

My computer is less than 20DB at desk level, where the user sits. You should get your hearing checked, even if I whisper I'm louder than that.

 

[RickH]

20 DBs is softer than a whisper. Right.

 

[serialb]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
I've got a P3 550E @ 733 @ only .05 over stock voltage still going strong it's on a Tyan S1854 mobo w/ a slocket =P it's been going since the P3 E was released (eg first coppermine based P3's), the motherboard in this system has died 3 times and been replaced under warrenty twice, but otherwise never a hickup and as a note the first 2 boards were Rev 1's that had some issues

I am also running a 550E (slot 1, cost me $252 when I bought it back in 2000) on the Almighty P3V4X @ 800 (145MHz bus) since day 1. It used to be running on the P3C2000, the ill-fated i820 chipset. I was able to get that bad boy up to 825 MHz.

The CPU/mobo is fine but I *think* the duo killed 2 of my Maxtor drives due to overclocking. I remember reading something about the OC'ed bus might damage other components.

 

[SpeedFreak03]

any more opinions?