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In my experience at least, the olde fears about shortening the life of the chip are non-issue in practice. I've run overclocked PC's exclusively for about 17 y
by 79d697i6fdif 10y ago
In my experience at least, the olde fears about shortening the life of the chip are non-issue in practice.
I've run overclocked PC's exclusively for about 17 years and never had a single failure, even though I've been running folding@home for most of those. By the time the chip is 4 yrs old it's time for a replacement for practical reasons.
My current system is a cheap Biostar board running a gen-1 i5 750 that I got second hand. The board dates back to 2009 I think. It's overclocked to around 3.6 ghz with turbo still enabled. About time for a replacement but until a year ago it benchmarked at the same level as $200 chips.
Overclocking is definitely still worth it if you want a fast pc for cheap