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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Overclocking introduction

Although overclocking your CPU is a brilliant way of getting tons of free performance from your PC, there is dangers along the way! But saying that the danger of overclocking your CPU can be easily avoided just along your aware of these dangers. What ever you do, never rush when overclocking your CPU. Overclocking takes time and inpatient people tend to get bored quickly and take bigger leaps when overclocking their CPU. This can only end in damaging their CPU's. So take your time.

Overclocking the processor

There are scads of information regarding overclocking on the Internet. But sadly, most of the websites tout overclocking as a walk in the park, misleading users by concealing the associated risks. A computer novice, unaware of the risks involved, may set out to overclock the processor based on some advice he got from such a website. This really makes me cringe. Is the whole process of overclocking a no-brainer?

In simple words, overclocking your processor requires an alteration in the hardware settings in order to make it run faster than the manufacturer’s specification. The ideology is that the manufacturer’s ratings are a result of stringent trials and tests performed against the CPU.

Overclocking benefits

If all you do on your computer is only word processing, email and simple tasks, overclocking will not give you noticeable performance boost. For gamers and those who are doing computationally heavy tasks, overclocking is the best way to transform your system from Daihatsu to Ferrari.

There are some risks involved in overclocking. Firstly, you will be voiding your warranty. This is logical as you are making the chips to run at a higher speed than its specification and there is this possibility that it could break. Though the risk of the chip breaking is small, the manufacturer will not want to bear this risk.

CONCLUSION

Overclocking is the process of forcing a computer component to run at a higher clock rate than it was designed for or was designated by the manufacturer, usually practiced by personal computer enthusiasts in order to increase the performance of their computers.

Some of them purchase low-end computer components which they then overclock to higher speeds, or overclock high-end components to attain levels of performance beyond the default factory settings. Others overclock outdated components to keep pace with new system requirements, rather than purchasing new hardware products as expected by the computer industry.