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Safety & OC questions

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Are there any safety mechanisms in place to prevent fires if some catastrophic failure in a computer occurs? I know some mobos have a heat shutdown setting in BIOS, is there anything in the PSU that would shut down if there were a short (or a capacitor blows or whatever)?

Next, when people overclock for reasons other than benchmarking or speed records, do you generally leave everything overclocked for good once you find stable settings?
 
There are some fail safe measurements built in that really prevent you from setting fire to your computer. Usually if you overclock too far you will know it right away. The BIOS POST screen will error, at the Windows load screen it keeps rebooting, before the Windows load screen it says you have a corrupt driver, and last but not least no system stability in Windows (BSOD and reboots).

To answer your other question I have my computer overclocked all the time. I did when I had my P4 and I do now with my A64. So far no fires. :D
 
Major_A said:
The BIOS POST screen will error, at the Windows load screen it keeps rebooting, before the Windows load screen it says you have a corrupt driver, and last but not least no system stability in Windows (BSOD and reboots).
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Sounds like when I ran ME.
 
The two questions not necessarily tied together. I don't like to leave my PC running when I'm not around, "just in case". But if I start folding I'll probably run at least one PC (if not 3-4) 24/7.

Good to know about OC'ing a rig and leaving it OC'd. I don't want to spend 2k on a rig only to replace parts in it every other month (barring legit RMAs of course).
 
Assuming that you're air cooling, your mobo will likely have a default shutdown if things start running too hot. If, however, you're OCing using water, then you'll want to jump into the watercooling section and get people to tell you how to build a switch so that when the power on your computer goes out, your pumps and such turn off. If they don't bad things can potentially happen.
 
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