Overclocking::: processor deterioration?

[househead]

Was wondering if by overclocking, you lessen the life of the processors? and is there any risk to any other components?

I'm interested to OC, but not @ the risk of CPU life..... ???

 

[sash1]

Rand: "Pay careful attention to what your PCI and AGP bus speeds are running at, if you push your peripheral bus speeds to far out of spec you could cause various problems. Especially watch closely over the PCI/IDE bus speeds, it is all to easy to push your IDE bus speed too high and incure data corruption when data is being transferred over the IDE bus, it can also damage the HDD and cause corruption of any and all files on said drive. HDD's tend to be the single most sensitive device to out of spec timings."

this was in response to one of my threads...

 

[AgentofEvil]

Yes, the processor life will degrade somewhat, but with new CPU's speced to last 10 years or more it's not really an issue. You will have already upgraded several times before the processor fails. It's not like your spanky new xp 1800 is going to stop working on you after six months or something.

 

[Wind]

It will shorten the lifespan of ur equipment. How many equipment is affected depends on how u O/C.

Multiplier increment will O/C the CPU only. Thus, only the CPU is affected.

FSB increment will O/C ur entire system ie. RAM, AGP, HDD...so all equipment are stress. But the performance gained is better the O/Cing the multiplier.

Even w/ OCed system...it will last long enough before ur next upgrade.

 

[JackMDS]

In theory, sure O/C reduces the life of some components, and if we will run the computers for many many many years, I think that the O/C will ?die? first.

In reality I always O/C to the max if possible.

In the last 5 years, I never lost a component because of O/C.
The computers always reach EOS(End of service) before they reach EOL (End of life).