looks like a total waste of time unless u are replacing the case anyways and are already inside there. could easily ruin some pads, those surface mount chips aren't easy to desolder especially for amateurs. those are designed to be soldered on once and that's it. I tried to fix a guy's video card that had a capacitor busted off once, what a flop.
Lol my video card is overclocked by like 200 mhz im surprised my computer still has not given up on me. And i have a crappy video card nvidia fx 5500.
imho, it's not that bad of a thing to overclock a cheaper component..if it fails u just replace it.. everything's going to end up in the bin some day anyways. I have an fx5200 in my server right now, great card.. I'd assum ethe fx5500 is even better. only thing is it chokes on youtube but that's probably cuz I'm only running 1ghz cpu.. a p4 would probably run it fine.
but ya man..you're lucky..everything I overclocked besides my p4 cpu was a disaster but when I went back to standard clock, it worked fine. I overclocked a p200 once to like 266 or something and. it worked like a charm for 2 days and as soon as I bragged to some spoiled kid about it, it crashed on me the same night and I went back to standard clock speed. However my p4 overclocks to like 3.6ghz or something crazy with stock cooling which is pretty cool but I leave it alone for now... might oc it later when I upgrade just for s&g.
