I use to run OC'd... till the CPU slowly started to show its age. 6 Years ago, it was a 2.8 running at 3.5-3.6, which for a P4 is damn good going. I had to underclock the memory since it was budget memory, but still did fairly well. But i was thrashing the Voltage, 1.38 running at 1.61, it was murder, but that's because i didn't know what i was doing. I kept it like that for months with a seriously loud Cooler. After about 6 months, i was getting stability issues, so I had to clock it back to 3.4 Ghz and it stayed at that for another 3-4 years. Then it was 3.2.... then 3.0.... and now, I can't Overclock at all. Other PC's i've built, i tend to overclock, usually by about +0.4-0.6, not a huge amount, but enough to be noticeable and suitable for a long term OC. Key lesson i learnt for FSB based systems, you need fairly decent memory otherwise you'll have to drop the ratio and that can hurt performance more than the OC itself could make up for (assuming a locked multiplier on the CPU). Now there isn't a FSB, i have no clue, so it's back to square one for me in the OC world.
