Thread: Has anyone overclocked their CPU to death yet?
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geneven is offline geneven
2010-06-08 , 05:01
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Originally Posted by z3phyr View Post
is it that easy to overclock your cpu to 1ghz? I tried it at 850mhz, it worked but would occasionally restart itself. i set it down to 750 and it still restarted itself, i was just listening to music too. I just gave up and set it to stock with under voltage.

Am I one of the few unlucky users with crappy cpu or is it something else
This is the beauty of overclocking -- you are basically custom-shaping the clocking to your individual cpu. CPUs are not exact things, they meet certain tolerances and may vary within those tolerances. Manufacturers are conservative and make sure that the cpus overfulfill what they are designed for, so it is normal that cpus can be overclocked to a certain extent -- it's just a question of how much.

If you read Jakiman's overclocking guide (linked to from the Overclocking Wiki) you will see his estimate of what percentage of N900s can overclock to what extent. Although his estimate was pure guesswork, it seems to have been surprisingly accurate.

So the answer is that your cpu may well have been "crappy" unless you inadvertently made your N900 crash for some other reason.
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