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Originally posted by Civic_Addict
When you overclock the processor, you overclock everything in the system. Video cards, network cards, RAM, etc. Network cards are especially sensitive.
Overclocking can be fatal.
Get Motherboard Monitor so you can monitor the temps & fan speeds from your desktop. It can even upload the temps to an FTP or website.
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What you overclock depends on your MB. Mine, for example, lets me control the PCI and AGP busses as ratios of the FSB clock rate. So to overclock my processor I increased the FSB speed, I can't recall if I underclocked all my busses or only some of them, but the PCI and AGP busses aren't both overclocked, I know that for sure.
MB Monitor will only do you much good if your MB has the right thermal sensors on it. I've been out of the loop for a little while so I'm not sure how standard issue it is these days. And fan speeds rely on the fan having a tach, which some do, some don't.
If you overclock too much and don't cool it well enough you can get EM problems, but people tend to get new processors before EM really starts to kill you.
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