Overclocking (AMD)

Clarifications

before mentioning which MB's would be best, we would need to know the processor you are looking at, and the socket to be used.

AMD makes their CPU's to run at the recommended speed to be stable and work correctly. If you disregard the makers recommendations you do so at your own risk and you pay for the problems that will arise because you have ignored the Makers Recommendations.

What you are most likely to see is unexpected shutdowns as the protection circuitry attempts to stop the CPU from over heating and burning out. Of course this will not stop this from happening but it will make for an very unstable system till it eventually dies.

Since the 286 Days the only CPU's that I've ever had to replace where DOA or Overclocked. The DOA where all covered by the makers Warranty but the overclocked ones cost the end user the cost of a new CPU and my wasted time so it worked out quite expensive for those silly enough to mess with the computers that I have made.

Even underclocking voids the warranty as you are misusing the CPU outside the recommended working specifications stated by it's maker so anything but using it as it is supposed to be used is going to end up costing you money when you have to replace the CPU but in the meantime it will result in an unstable system which fails at unexpected times because you are abusing the Hardware and forcing it to work outside it's designed working parameters.

If I was to expose you to 3 hours [b]WOO[/b] I wouldn't expect you to live all that long and the same applies to overclocking any CPU no matter how slightly you do this it is abuse and there is no way around this practise. OH incidentally [b]WOO stands for With Out Oxygen![/b]

Col