How Safe Is It To Overclock An Asus Eee Pc 1000 To 900mhz?

the hype: it’s safe to overclock stuff to a certain point.
the facts: it’s really -never- safe.
there’s a reason why the manufacturer set the chip to the speed it’s at: because this is the speed they can guarantee the chip will run properly at.
is it possible that the chip can run higher? yes.
will you get errors when you do so? probably.
will you crash the computer doing it? occasionally.
will you fry the chip into a useless hunk of carbon? yes, you might.
chips are clocked to a ’safe’ setting based on a number of things, like manufacturing quality, the actual hardware used in the chip itself, and system cooling ability, among other things.
as you push a chip faster, the heat it produces goes up drastically. this is LETHAL for computer hardware. and when you do it in something small like a laptop.. or even worse, one of the new minibooks.. you have no room to put in any extra cooling to keep the temp down.. meaning chips fry, and suddenly you’ve got a really expensive paperweight.
“but what about all those stories of guys overclocking their chips just fine?” well, there’s that word; stories. many of them are just that. others are just cases where someone -wanted- it to be good so much they just ignored it when errors started popping up, and/or blamed other things. and yes, sure, there are genuine caes where overclocking is carried out successfully. but these are usually from/by people who already know a lot about what they are doing, and having taken steps to ensure it will go well.
other factors to consider:
to push it faster, it will eat more juice. meaning your battery life will go down, significantly.
it will be hotter. “lap”tops already aint. don’t wanna see what you’ll have to do to keep airflow under and overclocked one.