I hear a lot about overclocking

[genpatton7]

I can say anything I want as long as I say no offense. It's in the Geneva convention!

But really, it wasn't intended to be 'attitudal' or offensive. My apologies that it came off that way. I suppose I get irritated with all the people that say something I spend most of my time doing(increase clock, test stability for hours, repeat), and spend a lot of my hard earned money on, is a bad thing and act like I don't know what I'm doing when in reality they are the ones that don't know what they are talking about.

I don't think your original post was offensive at all. I feel the same way as FreakingHell, the OP offended me by labeling overclocking as "BAD," instead of just offering a general opinion backed up by evidence.

 

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Let's get back on topic here guys...

 

[xenophek]

But being off topic is quite fashionable nowadays...

Well, I'm impressed with the response generated from this post. Sorry I missed the gunfight guys.

Anyway... I could write a long (and boring) paragraph about overclocking and such, but I'll leave it at this:
+1 for overclocking being worthwhile

-Xen

 

[LTCHIPS]

I don't overclock because I don't think i have the equipment to do so, I do have some ideas, but I never really do get around to doing so. I have nothing against overclocking, its just that, if your machine does great without overclocking, then why do so? I've had my machine for about 4 years now (maybe 3 I think) and I think that my dual core processor (mine is one of the oldest dual core processors, still does a great job of running games) doesn't need a shorter life. Getting a decent processor is just too much, I might have gotten a new one if I had money for both a 9800GT and a decent quad core processor from intel.

if you're confident, think you can overclock your machine, then go for it. No one's stopping you but yourself.