undervolting, Dangerous?

[Schadenfroh]

i left my pc on last night and i awoke to find a nice lil memory dumping screen on it. i was trying to find the lowest possibly voltage i could run my CPU at becuase of its insane temps. well, i put it back to what i had it at (what was working before) and now my system seems sluggish and outlook express is crashing like mad.

 

[Mickey21]

That I can recall, undervolting is just about as dangerous as overvolting, but in any case, what vcore's are we actually talking about here? Going under factory spec, or just going under what it used to be? Need much more info. CPU, vcore's, Board, FSB, multiplier, etc.... I made my initial statement only to generalize the answer to a generalized question....

 

[Schadenfroh]

it seem to have improved itself since this morning, but i will never do that again.

 

[Hankysmoo]

bump, is undervolting bad??

 

[zephyrprime]

No. Maybe some crazy stuff got written to Schadenfroh's HD when it crashed. It probrably crashed over and over again all through the night.

 

[mindwreck]

nope. my 1@1.2ghz tbird's stock voltage is 1.825v . Im runing it at 1.625 and it runing 5Cs cooler and more stable

 

[Jeff7181]

No, it's not dangerous in terms of damaging a CPU. But it can cause system instability if it doesn't have enough juice to run properly.

 

[stevejst]

That I can recall, undervolting is just about as dangerous as overvolting,

How is that? There is no danger in underpowering at all. The only thing you have to worry with CPU is thermal death and the risk of that is apparently less with underpowering.
That is different with disk drives though.