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    How long do you think my 8600m gt's life will be if overclocked?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dmacfour, Dec 4, 2007.

  1. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    I am a nervous overclocker. ever since an overclocked athlon XP randomly died on my I have been a little leery of overclocking things. how long should my 8600m gt, which is overclocked to 580/445 and stays below 75C max, will last? And is there any danger of damaging it at this speed, despite low temperatures?
     
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    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    since GPU OC'ing is a LOT safer than CPU OC'ing, you're probably going to be fine. Those speeds seem well within the norm for your graphics cards.
     
    hehe299792458, Dec 4, 2007
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  3. USRedefined

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    Just be sure that you got enough cooling going on and you should be fine.
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    if you know a thing or two about overclocking, you'll know that as long as you keep the temperature below dangerous levels, the gpu should be fine. if anything, by the time it does die, your laptop would long have been obselete already.

    I have an overclocked Athlon XP "Barton" and it's been fine for the past few years. How did yours just die?
     
    icecubez189, Dec 4, 2007
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  5. dmacfour

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    I had the thing overclocked from 1800+ to only 2200+(which was the highest it would stably go with a decent temp). after about a month windows would randomly crash as well as games, and then it just stopped working. Had to replace it with an AMD Duron 1.3.
     
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    Ouch, going from 2200 to 1300 :)
     
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    Basically, unless you're screwing with the core voltages you are going to have a hell of a time killing any of today's CPUs or GPUs by overclocking. The Intel Core 2s have no fewer than 7 thermal diodes to keep the CPU from overheating, and GPUs have similar features. Most of NVIDIA's range is OK up to 120C, which you're going to have a hell of a time reaching unless you intend on burning the crap out of your lap.

    Throttling? Possible. Crashes? Likely. Permanent damage? Almost certainly not.

    Now, once you start playing with voltages, you're playing with fire.

    And, now the legalese:

    DISCLAIMER: OVERCLOCKING ALMOST CERTAINLY VOIDS YOUR WARRANTY. OVERCLOCKING STRESSES COMPONENTS, AND MAY LEAD TO PREMATURE FAILURES, WHICH WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT BE COVERED UNDER YOUR WARRANTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OVERCLOCK YOUR SYSTEM UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THE RISKS INVOLVED.
     
    bsoft, Dec 4, 2007
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