Will this hurt my Athlon ?

[SeanD]

I have a Athlon 750 retail version which came with a pretty big heatsink and fan installed on it. My question is can I overclock it with the stock heat sink and fan ? I'm not looking to go crazy just maybe a 103mhz fsb bringing it to 772mhz or maybe a 105mhz fsb which would put the cpu at 787mhz. My only problem is that I have no way of seeing my CPU temp but I do have 2 case fan running.

 

[BurntKooshie]

You won't be likely to hurt it much, if at all. If it is hurt, it will likely be a shortened life, but I don't think its likely you'll be using the chip in 10 years anyway.

Question...why are you overclocking? Will you be able to tell the difference? Many people can't, they do it for the "mochoness" of it or whatever (like me! ). Other do it because they overclock the snot out of the processor, so they do see a difference (its tough to see a difference from a 750 - 800mhz CPU in most cases....)

 

[cmaMath13]

Yeah, I agree. I don't think it will hurt it, but I don't think it is worth it (such an incremental jump).

 

[DelBoy]

I tried to o/c my slot Athlon 800 with a standard fan but even after a short time it seemed
to run excessively hot I didn't have the cahunas to try a long session of UT in case of meltdown
(remember Chernobyl and that was just a bit of software testing)so as fans a relatively cheap
I stuck on a double fan unit with a massive cast heatsink and its cool enuff to touch at 880mhz
I also run a case exhaust fan above my Geforce SE cos you could barbecue on that beast on heavy weight gaming.

 

[Renob]

Crank it up to 105x8 and see how your temps are, they might be fine.. you might have to up your volts I say give it a shot.......