Side-effects of Overclocking

[snoogans]

Looking to OC a 750 T-Bird to GHZ-land but I'm a virgin OC'er.

My question is how damaging is upping the bus to the other cards in the system? I have 2 NIC's, SB Live Platinum, and v7700 Pure AGP card. Just changing a few settings seems too easy...there has to be a catch. How much will it shorten the life of the components? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Nick Stone]

The main difficulty with overclocking is that it causes you to have a severe superiority complex causing you to be totally obnoxious to all your former friends -- -

 

[IaPuP]

Athlon platforms can't do very high FSB speeds.

and you can't "damage" a card by overclocking it. About the wrorst you can do is erase your harddrive. As long as you're not using crazy voltages.

Eric

 

[atomicbomberman]

keep it within reason.. I'll say +- .25 or .3v is about as much as u want from going away from default. You really dont' need to worry aoub it.. those "damage" side effect will not even begin to shot long before your cpu became antique.

 

[VotTak]

I've got the same set of periferals on SOYO 6VCA mobo with a FSB set to 143 that's PCI = 35. It works perfectly.
So in your Athlon driven machine you can increase FSB/PCI up to 105/35 and after that you can play with adding to FSB, like FSB + 10( basically I think you won't get any better than 115 total.
Means that if you increase FSB/PCI to 105/35 than you can add only 10.
Good luck.

 

[VotTak]

Yeah I forgot.
It's suppose to shorten the life of your components.
So ( for example )they gonna last not 5 years but 2. at that time its basically garbage.

 

[snoogans]

Well that makes me feel a bit better about doing it...I still have some reservations but I appreciate your replies. Thanks, guys

 

[jinsonxu]

I'd overclock the bus anyday over the multiplier. But my A7V doesn't seem to like FSB overclocking. grrr

Good thing multiplier overclock is possible. I just up it to the max of 10x. Any other multipliers above that don't work and i have no idea why.

Anyway the Duron is not that expensive so...heheq