Why SHOULDN'T people Overclock?

[Dputiger]

I don't mean for this to be a nasty, flaming post, so let's keep it civil. I'd like to hear both sides of the argument, though--why is overclocking good/bad?

[tonym]

People should OC if they'd like because it is a tremendous vehicle for folks to demonstrate their ingenuity and initiative.

What's wrong with it? I mean, there is the OOPS factor -- you might inadvertely destroy your hardware. But you might also be struck by a rogue asteriod. I think the folks that try OCing are big boys n' girls and know they risks beforehand and are willing to accept a loss in the name of learning!

And the act of OCing imparts additional value to the person. They obtain greater performance for their "sweat equity" -- the time and extra hardware (fans, PSUs, etc.) that they put into their system. And they learn a great deal. Things that a school or university wouldn't offer in their curriculum.

In short, there is nothing legally, morally or ethically wrong with OCing. You're doing it to your property, in your home with your time and money.

I say modify, benchmark and enjoy!!!!


Tony

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[SysOpt]

Many people value system stability and data reliability over performance. I used to be majorly gung-ho overclocking, and accepted the infrequent but occasionally occuring freeze-ups and system weirdness that's generally associated with overclocking.

But as I got more involved with sensitive business related work, where I would lose hours of time if the system froze up, I became less interested tweaking that extra 5-15% power out of the processor.

That said, I have a separate gaming machine, and for gaming systems, anything goes. But for biz, an Athlon 800 is way fast enough anyway, and I need reliability.

[MAGIC 8-BALL and THE ELF]

There's no reason to overclock a pocket PC that handles 725 trillion instructions per second. - 8-Ball

But my pocket isn't big enough! - Elf

[alpha]

Why overclock? I have to cook breakfast on something!!

[akaBruno]

I think a lot of it is free Research and Development for the manufacturers. Somebody has to find out how far you can push the cores.

Bruno

[U-96]

To quote tonym:

Modify, Benchmark, Enjoy

If that slogan isn't Sysopt's mantra, I don't know what is! How about it Scott?

[AnakiMana]

If they can't afford to take the risk, they probably shouldn't be overclocking. Also if it's not their machine and they don't have permission. If they're going to sell it to someone and have the buyer think it's not tweaked, they probably shouldn't be overclocking.

AnakiMana

[wtp]

this thread should be called, WHY PEOPLE SHOULD OVERCLOCK, other than WHY SHOULDN'T PEOPLE OVERCLOCK.

wtp

[Chainsaw]

Clocking is Good???
http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/For...ML/003141.html

Sorry, couldn't resist...

c:::CHNsaw

[krusty the klown]

Noooooooooooo.... I thought that one was dead!

I buy a 550MHz CPU, I OC it to over 800MHz, I look at the price of an 800MHz CPU, I

[BFlurie]

SysOpt, over a long period of overclocking, tweaking, messin' & foolin' around -- I'm with you. Rock-solid stability comes first -- OC'ing is frosting.

(BTW, my 300 is OCed to 366)

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[Win_98]

Extreme overclocking is very unstable
yet some people like it cause it just
like being on steroids
that is why I dont like to take my K6 500 up to 600 and then try to cool it down as much
like trying to cool down a stove at
200F' HEHE
I am a light overclocker and I dont try to
like break the record, and if it crashes
at 550 then furget it, cause it tell me the cpu
had it and it just prefer to run at a slower overclocked speed.
what with you guy oh cool look I got
my k6 500 at 550 running quite stable
next step. 600mhz
it like you trying to brag or something
or alway trying to impress someone.
Im not against overclocker but I feel
they sometime overdo it like there never enought for them until the cpu is fryed of course then they go out buy another one and try it again.
Beware, do not even try to do what they do
it just a warning sign that you shouldn't