It's ill-informed attitudes like this that spread such fud about overclocking.
People who have reservations and are not informed need to learn the facts so they can make an educated decision. All the people I know who overclock their systems know exactly what they're doing with their systems and the risks involved. If you don't know what you're doing then yes it's possible to damage the system but more often then not it'll just not work and it'll function fine once returned to its default.
The whole great thing about not being multiplier locked is that you don't need to change the fsb out of spec. Also your power supply has nothing to do with overclocking, Athlons need a good power supply regardless since they are more power hungry anyway.
In games cpu, memory and graphic card performance are still the limiting factors.
It might seem like a long time but keep in mind this is the worse case length of time. How often do you think you'd completely wipe everything off it to upload another 4.8Gig? Don't know about you but most of my mp3 collection would fit on it!
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It's ill-informed attitudes like this that spread such fud about overclocking.
People who have reservations and are not informed need to learn the facts so they can make an educated decision. All the people I know who overclock their systems know exactly what they're doing with their systems and the risks involved. If you don't know what you're doing then yes it's possible to damage the system but more often then not it'll just not work and it'll function fine once returned to its default.
The whole great thing about not being multiplier locked is that you don't need to change the fsb out of spec. Also your power supply has nothing to do with overclocking, Athlons need a good power supply regardless since they are more power hungry anyway.
In games cpu, memory and graphic card performance are still the limiting factors.
It might seem like a long time but keep in mind this is the worse case length of time. How often do you think you'd completely wipe everything off it to upload another 4.8Gig? Don't know about you but most of my mp3 collection would fit on it!