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Post Date: 2008-03-14
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    Posted: 14 Mar 2008 at 7:21am
I am thinking about DS over clocking a quad 2.4gig.  My question is will overclocking this processor decrease the life span of it? 
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Yes. All semiconductors gradually deteriorate. Overclocking (actually increasing the voltage) causes them to deteriorate faster.
 
DSO warrantees the part for 3 years, so you're safe for at least that long. There's a very high probability that a CPU overclocked by DSO will still out live it's usefulness. That is, it will still become totally obsolete before it actually stops working.
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Technically, you may be able to overclock without increasing the voltage.  I plan on overclocking my QX9650 by increasing the multiplier.  I read on xbitlabs that it'll take it from 3.0 to 3.3 doing just that.  They also gave details on how they overclocked it to 3.6 and 4.0 and they tested it at each of those speeds.  Their conclusion was that they saw a good performance boost going to 3.6, but 4.0 wasn't worth it.  Then again, every processor may not respind exactly the same.
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