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Originally Posted by Lexandro
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Originally Posted by WEBSTER
well i'll respond this way,
how many parts, components, and things have you burned up, burned out, or had fail in your overclocking endevors that gained you the knowledge you have now to say you know how to safely overclock things today? :hmm:
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Absolutely none. The only hardware failures Ive had in the last 8 years have been from 2 PSU's (if you dont count broken keyboard/mice). One of which was only a week or so ago. I am using an HDD in this current rig that I bought several years ago (4+) and is still in perfect working order and I use it as a back-up operating system drive with windows XP on it. My other older systems have been sold on to people looking for a cheap computer or given away in parts. I have had zero complaints or problems with them.
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well you must understand that you are the exception to the average person, you get good information on the known limits that work well and dont push your system more than that. the OP would do well with someone like you to help him but the reason i feel the way i do is that the vast majority of people dont have someone like you around to help them.
i live by the golden rule that given half a chance the average person will manage to screw something up most of the time and i give advice based on that premis.
as Diopos said most people dont even clean the dust out of their systems much less have the due diligence to monitor their systems properly.
with all due respect i still feel that overclocking and water cooling are two things that should only be done by experienced to advanced skill level persons.
i understand you have to learn at some point but unless you have one of those experienced to advanced skill level persons there to help you do it, then you are working without a net so to speak and if something goes wrong you wont know it until its too late.
im sure with proper precautions it could be done with little chance of something going wrong but i would feel very bad if someone ruined their computer trying to overclock it because i said they should give it a try.