exactly what is overclocking

[bladeoftruth]

okay just for the heck of it, lets pretend that I know nothing about CPU's (i mean it, drop the assumptions); could someone please explain overclocking to me. simply please!

[Martoch]

This will get you started...

[thekingofpain]

Its addictive voodoo---resist getting involved unless you can appreciate that sort of thing...

[John Prophet]

hmm..sounds like golf

[Tomteriffic]

Follow Martoch's link, there to find out a ton about it.

Conceptually, though, it's the process of making your CPU run faster than the speed that it was initially labeled as and/or designed to run at. The processor is meant to run at a certain clock speed. If you can make it go faster than that clock speed you are, by definition overclocking it.

Looked at another way, it's a simple and inexpensive way to get your computer to do double duty as a marshmallow roaster

[lost-and-found]

it's like having a hamster running in a hamster wheel, and gradually speeding up the hamster wheel to make the hamster run faster.......okokok, I won't turn this into another jameswillanor thread

[DanGrease]

Originally posted by lost-and-found
it's like having a hamster running in a hamster wheel, and gradually speeding up the hamster wheel to make the hamster run faster.......okokok, I won't turn this into another jameswillanor thread

Its a pretty cool example though
Simple and direct

dan

[bladeoftruth]

done with reading a couple of these. So tell me exactly how far can an AMD athlon XP 2000+ be pushed? Or is each individual
processor specific?

[jmichna]

Originally posted by DanGrease

Its a pretty cool example though
Simple and direct
dan

Uh oh... here we go again....

[paul9]

Originally posted by bladeoftruth
done with reading a couple of these. So tell me exactly how far can an AMD athlon XP 2000+ be pushed? Or is each individual
processor specific?

yes, each processor can be o/ced by a different amount, and amd are usually more amenable to o/cing than intel.