The Risks and Rewards of Overclocking
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010Do you know that you can raise your computer’s performance by overclocking your CPU? Overclocking CPU simply pertains to pushing the CPU beyond its factory default speed settings. This suggests that a CPU that runs at 2 Ghz can be overclocked to run at 2.4 Ghz – a substantial performance boost.
It may seem wierd to some that in order to go quicker, you have to go slower, but this is something you’ve got to at least test for to grasp the boundaries of your CPU. If you set your machine up with aggressive settings, and then say, “My machine only does 2.6GHz, this chip sucks,” you have not done the complete job. You do not know the chip sucks just because you have not eliminated the other possible causes. The chip may not suck at all . What could be doing the sucking is your settings. (more…)
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