does overclocking shorten the life of a device?

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bloodthirst

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when you overclock a device like vid card cpu or ran considering that the temps are substantially low, will the overclocking affect the hardwares life?
 
With temps down it should be trivial. With it oced, it's shinin' brighter so it will decrease it some but not enough to notice.
 
yes it will shorten but a cpu has a lifetime of about 10years and i don't think anyone will stay with the same cpu for 10 years ;)
 
name='balilu' said:
yes it will shorten but a cpu has a lifetime of about 10years and i don't think anyone will stay with the same cpu for 10 years ;)
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And if the the graphics card any that are older than three years will be well out of date for new games! :(
 
Graphics card have a shorter life span if you plan on running newest technology. I'd get a new one every 1.5-2 years since I like stuff that looks good.
 
name='vice' said:
Graphics card have a shorter life span if you plan on running newest technology. I'd get a new one every 1.5-2 years since I like stuff that looks good.
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Yeah I try to if I can afford it! :)
 
Upgrading ur gfx card at least every 2 years is almost mandatory, lol... Especially at the rate that these new games are coming out that take more and more processing power.

As far as OC'ing vs. lifespan... As long as the temps are decent you're only going to lose an insignificant amount of life which you will have replaced long before it has a chance to die.
 
Yeah cause then you're just looking at what performance you could be having. With these 3 year warranties or greater, you can fuck your equipment as hard as you want and replace it with a new hoe within that time. When 3 years comes up for my processor, I'll run it at 2V with no cooling on prime95 until it explodes and be like "yeah, I have no idea what happened, she was a great piece, just send me your latest shit worth $190."
 
lmfao. Suicide OC's are fun. I did that on my p4. 1.68v. then i realized all that voltage did nothing.lol then i put it @ 1.55v and used clockgen, just kept pushin it so far it was too unstable to save a paint screenshot.

3.3ghz. damn
 
It would be cool to see how it runs at 100+ C. When I oced to 2.7 ghz, it was like an acid trip. Things were smearing all over the screen and reappearing all over, then it crashed.
 
I'm not very patient so when I overclock, I just jump to something that sounds good. I'll keep going until it can't boot windows, then I'll back down a couple hundred mhz and run some tests.
 
name='vice' said:
I'm not very patient so when I overclock, I just jump to something that sounds good. I'll keep going until it can't boot windows, then I'll back down a couple hundred mhz and run some tests.
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That sounds kinda like me :D
 
I don't know how anybody could spend a week getting their shit overclocked, especially since TV is crap these days.
 
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