Don't be silly. You don't NEED an excuse to overclock.
It's about fun and education. (and e-penis).

The question being asked in this topic is related to whether or not the overclock is 'Safe'. No overclock is 'Safe'. Only running equipment at factory specifications is 'Safe'.

Overclock for fun, education and e-penis by all means, if that's what you want to do. But don't kid yourself that it's 'Safe'. If you can't afford to replace it, then leave it at stock settings and don't take risks


Edit: Don't think I'm some old 'wowser' either. I have more than one overclocked system here, and it wouldn't inconvenience me at all if a component in one of them gave up the ghost right this minute!

My post was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
I don't think you're an old wowser, anyone with Monty in their avatar gets instant respect from me.

my core voltage is 1.70 and the ram is still at 2.8, i've ran prime for 4 hours and been stable, i keep forgetting to run it when i leave, and my fiancee won't let me run it all night so, it's only ran for 4 hrs but it was stable then. I had it at 2.73 GHz, but it crashed during UT2K3 and failed prime instantly. lol. I currently just play UT2K3, but I'm hoping to get HL2 soon.

Sounding good Shadow, that's pretty good results from a 3400+. I can only get mine stable just past 2.6GHz but it will do it at 1.55v so that's a consolation. I can boot it higher, but only at 1.6-1.7v and then it gets too hot for my thresholds of comfortability once I start priming it. Your ram might need anymore voltage, just depends on the chips' sweetspot. You'll like hl2, but it may not like your overclock! That game is one of the best oc test programs out there..

Thats not even a big jump...so i dont know what your bragging about. But nice comp