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It does majorly depend on how much you overclock it. But any component that is being stressed to what its "not" supposed to do is shortening its life. The life expectency of hardware is so big it doesn't really matter. Put it this way......
The average life of a processor years ago was about 10 ten years IF TAKEN CARE OF. I'm assuming the the life expectency of processors now have increased somewhat due to technology. Lets say you did something so incredibly harsh that you cut its life down by HALF! You now have 5 years left in that processor. Are you telling me your gonna be running that processor in 5 years? I sure won't be.........
*sigh* You missed the analogy. When the amd overheats it burns up, becoming useless, hence you could use it as a coaster, thus making it an expensive coaster. *aaaaahhhhhh* Anyways, I just want to avoid looking over and seeing the smoking ruins of my geforce 4 at some point in time but it seems from what your saying is that it will not actually burn up, it will just crash and maybe last 2 years instead of 4.
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