Over Clocking Results

[Ph?bus]

BASS is correct. The amount you overclock does not matter. Even the voltage is not too big of a deal. Its the temperature that will kill the chip or shorten its lifespan. If your temps stay below the max recommended manufacturer's specs, your fine. I would recommended also keeping the voltage below max rec specs as well just for piece of mind.

My OC gets upto 66c in game and 82c under full load. Max spec'd temp from intel is 68c so im safe. But, its not like im stressing with IBT everyday of the week, only when tweaking. I wont be stressing for a while now as im very happy where im at.

YES, i3's clock like crazy . I got mine to 4.2 first try . Just remember , these chips are very sensitive and you could easily kill it with 1.4vcore. I'm currently using 1.3vcore and knocked it down to 4.0ghz . As it got warmer in Michigan, im idling at 31c and loading at 59c. BTW- $24 CPU cooler- CM Hyper 212 +

CAREFUL WITH THE 32NM CHIPS EVERYONE ! ! !

This is true, and temps are directly affected by volts, and MHz are directly stabilized through volts.

Overclocking will probably make your proccesor last 8 years instead of 10.

Who's going to keep it for that long anyway.

Ocin'g is perfectly safe, -most- people that know how to do it do it. The performance boost is pretty substantial and definitely worth it. Proccesors these days are pretty much built for overclocking, we aren't talking about old technology with high nm.

Games that run on source engine you can net almost ~20 or more fps ocing.

I can vouch for this.
I overclocked my processor, and before, I was getting roughly 50fps, low 30s dip in l4d at high/1080p. I overclocked, and now get 60fps with a 50fps dip on same settings. Yay.

 

[dbee]

Has anybody seen the effect on OC'ing an i7 and playing BFBC2?

http://www.techspot.com/article/255-battlefield-bad-company2-performance/page7.html

Roughly 40 frames from stock to 3.7ghz.

 

[reflex99]

BC2 is a highly CPU dependent game.

Not surprised in the least