[Kaizen]

Yo guys, I'm using a cheap EEE pc just now (1001ha). Got it for £100 on ebay, not bad for general internet stuff and the battery life is 5 hours too.

The thing isn't fast enough for guitar rig 4 though and that program is important to me so I've overclocked it to 2ghz by upping the fsb using a tool and GR4 runs fine now.

Just wondering if there is any issue about degradation or risk of failure to the system. The processor temps are fine and stability seems good so far.

Would the extra strain be important to the battery, motherboard/chipset?

 

[-StrikE-]

I'm a amd user so some of this may not apply to you... if you didn't upped the voltage to or forced the nb frequency to high (dunno if that soft your using has that), then it should be fine. If it has some inner motherboard sensors you could try looking at the overall system temps, everest could do that nicely.

 

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Whilst I don't see it harming the battery I'm pretty sure you don't get quite as much life out of it now since it has to provide so much more power.

 

[Kaizen]

Whilst I don't see it harming the battery I'm pretty sure you don't get quite as much life out of it now since it has to provide so much more power.

It's an atom chip and the overclock is about 25% from 1.6 to 2ghz
The cpu temperature at load is the same as stock clocks.

It's a cheap netbook and replaceable, there's a lot on ebay for £100 or less.
I'm more worried about the battery or a component going up in smoke or melting.

@ strike, I'm using setfsb which I think ups the northbridge too

 

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

No what I meant was your 5 hours being reduced to say 3 hours and 50 minutes.

 

[Kaizen]

No what I meant was your 5 hours being reduced to say 3 hours and 50 minutes.

Ah right, I only need the extra cpu speed for one program.
I'll adjust the fsb to default when not running from the mains power

 

[StriderVM]

Temps is your worst problem. If you can really solve that, then no problem. And like SCHUMI said, second is battery life.

 

[runawayprisoner]

It'll degrade RAM and motherboard pretty fast. Just FYI.

I played around with Atom a while back, and while you can overclock to get immense benefits, you gotta watch out for RAM crapping out. Had 2 sticks died on me on every Atom machine consistently.

 

[redlofredlof]

funny case at work today. Got a complaint of overheating. The customer poured water over the laptop to cool it down. only to fry his laptop lol. He thought whatever he was doing was called as watercooling :lol: