overclock issue

hascet said:
ya, but my dad brought home an hp 3.2ghz with ht today, and it loads windows really fast! the little bar goes across the screen 3 times, and i'm fairly certain it doesn't have any raptors, or scsi drives in it lol, probably a 7200 rpm sata

does overclocking shorten the life span at all?

I don't think overclocking hurts your cpu, unless temps are really high and pushing high volts through the cpu could probably damage it.
 
hascet said:
does overclocking shorten the life span at all?
it does. But it doesn't matter that much, just make sure that the voltage isn't extremely high and the temps are fine and the cpu should last for long enough to become completely obsolete.
 
whew! almost had a heart attack there...my comp would start but wouldn't display anything, but i let it cool down for 5 min, and started it up then went into the bios and changed it back to stock lol. no overclocking for me until i get a new hsf!
 
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