My issue with OCing is that normally when you see warnings about this sort of thing, it's intended to frighten people away from casually playing around and thus destroying things. However, the sheer number, detailed depth, and intensity of warnings about OCing around here seem to suggest that it's actively dangerous to even have the replacement kernel loaded at all.

In short, the warnings suggest that you're getting less than half-again the performance by burning the candle an order of magnitude more brightly (if not more), and even that can wipe your credit card and slay your first-born child. Why in the hell would anyone do such a thing if the consequences really are that dire?

The only conclusions a sane person can make are that either people are carelessly insane and cheerfully destructive loons who don't mind having $500-600 phones that last three months, OR that things aren't actually as dire as suggested and it's just overstated to scare off the cheerfully destructive loons.

...so, which is it?