Blaster wrote:
"Joseph Oberlander" wrote in message
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All Ears wrote:

I actually never succeeded in harming a CPU by over clocking. With the

P4

CPUs there is not much idea in over clocking, they are normally fast

enough.

Back in the the "old days" there was a lot to gain. Big difference in
running a 486 at 25 MHz or 40 MHz.
Anyway, who cares if the lifetime of the CPU is reduced to 5 or 10

years,

never used the same CPU more than 2-3 years anyway.

It's actually 4-5 years down to maybe 2-3 if run hot. Note how
those AMDs tend to fry after a couple of years.


My son (7 years old) uses an AMD 166 MHz overclocked to 200 MHz--it's still
going strong since 1997.

I was referring to the newer, hotter running models that AMD
massively overclocks to begin with.