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What are the risks of overclocking?

post #1 of 5
12/6/05 at 2:46am
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I know heat is not good but are there any other risks to consider. The reason I'm asking is because I auto overclocked my geforce go 6800 ultra to 495 mhz and the hottest it got under load was 78 C. Are there any other factors to consider other than heat?
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post #2 of 5
12/6/05 at 3:09am
overclocking eventually leads to faster degradation of ur graphics card...
but with a warranty, it shouldn't be that much of a problem...
u also run the risk of blowing it, but that won't happen unless you overclock extremely high, which means you're a complete idiot, because that's quite hard to do...

My overclock reaches about 84 C.
Hot, but I plan on adding some as5...
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post #3 of 5
12/6/05 at 7:48am
and the fast degradation is like 10-15 years instead of 50 -60 years so its not going to mater much
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post #4 of 5
12/6/05 at 2:49pm
im pretty sure my overclocked GPU never gets above 68C
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post #5 of 5
12/6/05 at 3:31pm
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I get 5900 points with 3dmark05 so I'm happy. I will upgrade to a 7800 GTX in a few months anyway. What clock speeds are you guys running at?
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