Occ 8600gt

Will over clocking my GPU (8600GT) really shorten the overall life on my computer/gpu??? I was thinking of doing it using this guide: http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=657

Is it worth? What are some other repercussions to over clocking. And if I were to over clock it wouldn't even be by that much so I'm thinking I might do it.

 

Obviously, OCing increases the chance of your CPU/GPU crashing and burning.

 

By how much is the question tho. Any idea?

Obviously it depends on by how much you OCC it, but could you give me a ballpark figure?

 

Depends completely on the skill of the user and luck. So let's say 1 to 10000000000000 percent.

 

hahaha thanks for the help

 

The first clear repercusion of overclocking is having an unstable system (artifacts). If by mistake you increase too much the clocks in one shoot, there is a good chance of frying or damaging your card. That's why is it recommended to increase in small steps.

 

I would imagine this is an "all or nothing" event here. Increased temps on hardware would not severely effect the lifespan unless they are really high. The difference between 70 and 80 degrees over 3 years is negligible. If you over clocked and hit 99 degrees, then I think something could potentially melt, then shorten the lifespan. In my unprofessional opinion, and a man of science, I would say you could safely over clock as long as you don't over do it.

 

be careful, this is a desktop guide that you have, not a laptop guide. temps/specs different.

 

Ok. Thanks. I did not know that.

 

If you raise the clocks enough to have a useful increase in performance, you're going to raise temps significantly and have an effect on the lifespan for sure. That's just facts, you can't argue with that. Of course, you might argue that shortening the lifespan is irrelevant, since the laptop will be obsolete by the time anything adverse happens.

If you raise the clocks by just a little (so you're not really placing any extra thermal stress on the laptop), well, the performance gains will be so small as to be pointless. 10% might sound like a great improvement but 30FPS -> 33FPS ? Meh, you'll get that with just a few tiny settings tweaks.

I wouldn't really make any recommendation either way - overclock if you want, and vice versa. But whatever you do, read up on it and make sure you know what you're doing. It's so easy these days to download riva-tuner and instantly o/c your GPU that i'd be afraid complete newbies inadvertently fry their machine because they were chasing after some pointless 3DMark score they saw posted on a forum.

 

Good point. In this case, when it's all or nothing, I'll take nothing.