[pest]

[quote="Bazooka_Joe":17aae]

Originally Posted by pest

Baby steps are the second rule for overclocking. The first rule is dont overclock if you cant afford to replace the hardware if anything goes wrong. With cpu oc'ing, more can go wrong and you could lose more, including any data on your hardrrive.

Yeah, this is true too. I'm just not that confident in overclocking GPUs compared to CPUs.[/quote:17aae]

Ever since I corrupted my windows install thanks to overclocking, I feel that way about cpu overclocking. I was able to fix the problem and save my data with $80 for a new HDD and a fresh windows install, but I lost several days of my life screwing around with it. Hell, for that amount of time, aggravation and money, I could buy a faster cpu that would give me as much performance increase as I got oc'ing (about 10%).