Are there any besides running at higher temperatures?
Unstability, and it can shorten the life of the CPU.
- You can acquire an allergy to slower computers?
- You can't tell the people that sold you the CPU because you'll lose the CPU product warranty?
- You'll have to get a totally balling CPU cooling solution and a badass high airflow gaming case?
- You'll get more value for your money on the CPU and will have budget left so you'll be developing a taste for badass extra gear?
In most case there are none if running at stock or close to stock voltages.
Also alot of manufacturers cover overclocking in their warranty.
"a lot of manufacturers"?
Sorry, what do you mean by that? For x86 PC's there are only Intel and AMD, and both limit the warranty in case of overclocking, even though they explicit market the CPU's as overclockable and charge extra for that option, so they should be covering overclocking in the warranty, but they limit it nonetheless.
He's also referencing GPU's.
The reasons they can't cover it are fair.... They might be able to cover part of it but if anytime you melted down a cpu from overclocking you could replace it for free wouldn't you always run your CPU with a 2ghz overclock at 90degrees? I mean... It is free... (I know a lot of people wouldn't actually do that... I'm not sure if I would but from a company's stand point... stupid people are stupid)
When you return a CPU or graphics card just don’t say i was over clocking and this happened.... ;-)
Good plan!
"Sir how did your CPU turn into a puddle of plastic on your motherboard?"
"Um... It got bored of being a CPU and decided to be a frisbee instead?"
I've heard that overvolting reduces life expectancy by a lot (since you're essentially jamming more electrons through it) has anyone else heard that or seen some effect of that happening?
OCing below 1.5V (proportionally to the frequency) and staying below 5.5gHz is fine; If you aer running 4.8gHz at 1.4V, it is perfectly fine for sustained use. As long as the cooling is adequate and reasonable voltages, then there is no damage from OCing.
"For x86 PC's there are only Intel and AMD"
*there is
They degrade rather quickly if you ask me. I only have overclocking experience with the fx-8120 but mine typicly last 4 months at 4.5ghz 1.36v never over 50c and I'm using an h110 cooler. I wouldn't o/c if I ordered my cpu online because I cant wait that long for a replacment but I go to some retail store pay 20 bucks more but I dont have to wait, consider that waiting time and I can probably burn through another 1 or 2 cpus within the 2 year warranty... now thats value. A grand of cpus for $200, I dont know how they make any money lol.
Well you do end up making a lot of money when your selling 5cents worth of metal and plastic for $200....
They cost millions in reasearch, (Including ones that never made it to the shelf) You've got wages you have to pay for and matenance of the assembly machines, There not 5 cents a pop.