Overclocking?

hardware) overclocking - Any adjustments made to computer hardware (or software) to make its CPU run at a higher clock frequency than intended by the original manufacturers. Typically this involves replacing the crystal in the clock generation circuitry with a higher frequency one or changing jumper settings or software configuration.

If the clock frequency is increased too far, eventually some component in the system will not be able to cope and the system will stop working. This failure may be continuous (the system never works at the higher frequency) or intermittant (it fails more often but works some of the time) or, in the worst case, irreversible (a component is damaged by overheating). Overclocking may necessitate improved cooling to maintain the same level of reliability.
 
Maddhatter said:
hardware) overclocking - Any adjustments made to computer hardware (or software) to make its CPU run at a higher clock frequency than intended by the original manufacturers. Typically this involves replacing the crystal in the clock generation circuitry with a higher frequency one or changing jumper settings or software configuration.

If the clock frequency is increased too far, eventually some component in the system will not be able to cope and the system will stop working. This failure may be continuous (the system never works at the higher frequency) or intermittant (it fails more often but works some of the time) or, in the worst case, irreversible (a component is damaged by overheating). Overclocking may necessitate improved cooling to maintain the same level of reliability.
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yea your processor burns out quicker right? thats what my boss said that when it gets a little bit of dust on your fan that your processor gets hotter then its supposed to be
 
Well from what my experience tells me is that if the CPU has a average life span of 4 years it will cut the life span down to like 3. And yes it will run hotter but if you don't overclock that much there are no worries.
 
4 years? 3 years? hold on here, you cant speak for all CPU's out there! You are being way too in general here. that's not fair to say, all CPU's are different!
 
What, 3 or 4 years! I have a box full, thats 3 times as old as that and all have been overclocked at one time and still run just fine. As long as you dont run some kind of extreme over voltage and watch the temps you have nothing to worry about.
 
underworld288 said:
Well from what my experience tells me is that if the CPU has a average life span of 4 years it will cut the life span down to like 3. And yes it will run hotter but if you don't overclock that much there are no worries.
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:D I was using a computer that was about 6 or 7 years old a short time ago and it's still in business. Where did you get that number from? Thanks!

~Jordan
 
well ok then yall talk aobut over clocking and there eve a post on how to do it. but i still dont understand how to do it. do you change system setings or hardware setings. if i give someone my system configs can someone help me do it
 
We can't just generalise here, not ALL motherboards produced in the last three years have overclocking features. I know that the Intel motherboards have very horrible overclocking features, they restrict the FSB to a 10% overclock, so you can't overclock beyond 110%. ASUS and Gigabyte are the best boards for overclocking from my experience.
 
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