Exactly. I am quite confident that no matter how much we overclock the N900 within the boundaries of what the Power Kernel allows, the CPU will outlast pretty much anyone's life time usage of the device. Yes, you can try to be scientific and calculative about the whole theory behind overclocking and how it can damage or shorten its lifetime. But my point about overclocking being safe is far more correct "till-now" than the ones who are over-cautious and saying overclocking is dangerous. If suddenly people's N900 start burning/dying tomorrow, I'll stand corrected. But I doubt it will be the CPU that burns out first.

N900 has been out for about 23 months now and overclocking started around 18 months ago I think. So we only have 18 months of data to go by. I am fair confident in saying we so far had less than 0.1% (if that) of those who overclocked that had their N900 physically damaged by it. I'm throwing imaginary numbers out of my head so please correct me if you have more accurate numbers.

I've been overclocking CPUs since the 486 days. (My motherboad didn't have any option to overclock my 286 and 386...) I've yet to have a cpu die on me and I gone through over 20 CPUs myself and many many more for all my family, relatives and friends that I've built the PC for. (I overclocked every single one of them before letting them use it. lol)

Mobile phone overclocking is fairly new concept and we don't have the flexibility to better "cool" it or run it at different FSB etc. I've only overclocked a handful of Android phones (including the SGS2 where I got mine to 1.5GHz rock stable) and the N900 so far. So not a whole heap of personal experience yet but I might still be up there and be above-average.

I understand some people going totally against it. But I don't understand when you just go against it without any real strong evidence or statistics to back it up. I also don't have a proper statistic for you guys but the history so far is definitely in the favour of the overclockers I think..... We will know more in a few more years.... as that's the argument... I guess only time will tell...

(This is a debate where no one can win. It's like religion it seems. lol)