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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anusha" data-source="post: 1708120" data-attributes="member: 828">Overclocking is more of a fun thing, when it comes to VGAs. On CPUs, maybe it gives a valid reason, if you consider the 50% or more overclocks most people are getting with the current Core 2 chips. For example, E6320 which is about USD180 can be overclocked to 3GHz easily, which will give the same performance of the X6800, which retailed for over USD1000. Yes, overclocking will heat up the card, but it will not lower the performance, unless something seriously goes wrong with the card and it starts throttling. You forget one important thing though. Consider the 8800GTX vs 8800Ultra. 8800Ultra is basically an overclocked 8800GTX. Everything else is identical. If nVidia sees it perfectly safe to overclock, why can't you? Why should you pay nVidia about USD150 to overclock your card by 10% or so, when you can do it yourself, for free?! Do you think the 8800Ultra will have a shorter lifespan than the 8800GTX? Would you be paying more bucks to get a card which dies faster? No. Overclocking, if done with care, will not cause any problems...even in the longrun. And I don't think people are willing to keep any PC component for 5 years. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/D.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" data-shortname=":D" />You can never get the performance of a 8800 series card by overclocking a 8600 series card. Well, you can, if you overclock the core to like 2.5GHz and memory to like 5GHz...which is impossible LOL.</blockquote>

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