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What's overclocking?
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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 61566" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>That's incorrect. Overclocking means that, by doing some modifictions on the existing hardware (like for example adding/removing some resistance) to raise it's clockspeed. Sometimes, it is needed to raise the voltage too, but that alone doesn't make it run faster. Only raising the clockspeed makes it run faster.</p><p>Overclocking isn't very common on Macs, nevertheless some models can be overclocked. I saw a dual 1.25GHz MDD G4 running very stable at 1.5GHz.</p><p>CPUs are made with a large security margin, and as long as you adapt the ccoling to the overclocking, it will run as long as any other does. There's no evidence that an overclocked CPU dies faster than a non-overclocked. That is, as long as the ccoling is adapted too, and the overclocking is reasonable (raising a 1.25 GHz to 2GHz is not reasonable).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 61566, member: 5184"] That's incorrect. Overclocking means that, by doing some modifictions on the existing hardware (like for example adding/removing some resistance) to raise it's clockspeed. Sometimes, it is needed to raise the voltage too, but that alone doesn't make it run faster. Only raising the clockspeed makes it run faster. Overclocking isn't very common on Macs, nevertheless some models can be overclocked. I saw a dual 1.25GHz MDD G4 running very stable at 1.5GHz. CPUs are made with a large security margin, and as long as you adapt the ccoling to the overclocking, it will run as long as any other does. There's no evidence that an overclocked CPU dies faster than a non-overclocked. That is, as long as the ccoling is adapted too, and the overclocking is reasonable (raising a 1.25 GHz to 2GHz is not reasonable). [/QUOTE]
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