Mr. Oberlander,

Overclocking is often 50% more speed. 30-40%
is pretty easy. You usually need to put in larger fans and
heatsinks. Use a case with better airflow. Then you also
have elements to monitor the temp of the CPU. Often with
all the cooling improvements you can OC a cpu with very
little temp rise. If I remember correctly you half the life
of such chips for each 10 degree centigrade increase.

As someone stated, you are taking something built to last
8-10 years, and possibly lowering that by 50 percent. By which
time it will be hopelessly obsolete. So you just saved money
or achieved a speed of operation before it would normally be
available.

If this performance gain sounds like idiocy to you don't do it.
But many people don't agree with you. Which CPU will over-
clock generously and which won't vary greatly from different
production runs and assembly lines. This information is
empirically developed by people who get a kick out of OC'ing.

Dennis

"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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I still maintain that it is idiocy to overclock a modern CPU to
gain 5-10% more speed at the expense of a much shorter lifespan.

It's like taking a car and racing it - it's going to fall apart
a lot faster. Considering that a few hundred dollars seperates
the bottom CPUs from the very top, it's like hopping up a Civic
and stressing it versus getting a M3 and doing it right - just
to save a thousand dollars.