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Originally posted by KAIN
Personally my feeling is overclocking full stop is not good for hardware. I have had graphics card I kept at stock voltage but overclocked die far sooner than cards overclocked but with increased voltage.
Heat is as much of a problem as voltage, same as stressing components overclocking is a problem as well. The components are made to run at a set speed and they will die sooner whether you add extra voltage when overclocking or not.
:confused: Running something physically faster will add more heat but no where near as much as adding voltage to it will, esp as most o/c'ers do both. I forget the techie term but using more voltage than a part is technically designed for will almost certainly cause it long term damage, you effectively burn out the data pathways. All parts must have a degree of headroom in them, added to which many of the low to mid-range parts use the same technology as the high end ones (mostly just underclocked) and are often clocked far lower than they (and their technology) are capable of simply to make the high end offerings shine or to fill demand in a cheap and easy way. So using voltages above the design of the part is a gamble while running it at a faster speed is ... well ... a much smaller gamble so long as you're careful.