How to Safe Overclocking?

[rikoss1313]

i am worried to overclock my cpu :wacko: ,

someone said it would damage the cpu and decreasing cpu lifetime :blink:

help!

[ForsakenLive]

It will help if you tell us what CPU and Mobo you have.

 

Unless you go nuts with voltage, your CPU will be fine, stable and last a long time.

[FranBunnyFFXII]

Lol CPUs are so safe today you can't really damage them without then shutting off or having issues with stability before they can be really damaged.

Just get a high end air cooler, or a liquid cooler and start slowly rising with multipliers and benchmarking the CPU.

Youll have issues with stability in your system before youll run into issues with your CPU being damaged.

[That Norwegian Guy]

decreasing cpu lifetime

 

No matter the OC, you don't really decrease CPU life time. You decrease OC lifetime. Which means, let's say you're talking Ivy Bridge. There's a threshold of about 1.32-1.35 volts where if you cross it, your chip will maybe lose efficiency two years sooner, and when that time comes, all that happens is that you will have to decrease the overclock. It doesn't suddenly die. In layman's terms, the pathways within the die become current resistent and need more voltage for the same frequency as before.

 

Thus, if you plan to have a chip and use it for a long time, let's say 10 years, it's best to not cross each chip's "safe" threshold. That way you can keep a 4.6Ghz overclock for 10 years rather than a 4.8Ghz overclock for 8 years (and it gets cumulatively worse after that)

 

But even if you jacked it up with 1.5v for 3 years, when it starts showing signs of decay you will have the option to go back to stock or a softer OC.

 

Hell, I ran a Core2Duo E8400 at 4.4Ghz with a crazy amount of voltage for 5 years. That's when it suddenly gave up on its overclock and decided it wanted either the OC loosened up, or more voltage. I put it back to stock and stuffed it in a media PC. Now it'll just keep trucking at stock basically until the motherboard dies.