Overclocking What does this actually do and how do I do it? I tried googling it but I couldnt understand it? Im guessing it speeds your PC up?
it makes whatever it is that you're overlcokcing, run faster. It also makes it run at a higher heat which can damage your hardware. I've never done it and I've never heard of it making that much of a difference unless you're seriously squeezing extra juice out of stuff.. which in turn requires even stupider amounts of heatsinking etc.. It can also void warranty.
thats bollocks, it all depends on ya hardware, the last 2 intel cpus ive used ive been able to get an extra 800 mhz out of them without using any extra cooling. yeah they run hotter but does that mean every poor cunt in a hot country has to underclock their pc... nope. the hardware has limits but knocking a few hundred mhz out of it shouldnt harm it in the slightest for most hardware
An overclocked processor has to run the fans faster so it's louder which sucks. I've never been able to tell the performance difference out of benchmarks either, even a large increase in clock speed can often only give you 5% actual gain which is very hard to notice. I don't bother overclocking, I'm more bothered about getting a pc to run at the stock speed but as quiet as possible. I have acutally underclocked pcs in the past to reduce the need for fans.
Isnt overclocking just utilising the parts of the processor that companies like Intel block to make them slower? actually costs these companies more to produce slower chips as they are exact replicas of the faster processors but with additional features built in to slow down them down.
yeah noise can be an issue but it depends on ya fans, if you have some big 120 mil fans inside you prbs wont notice much but its the smaller bladed fans that make a racket, i notice a differnece with my overclocks if ive managed to get a substancial amount of extra mhz from it because it just does things quicker, if your constantly handling files which need unzipping, decoding, encoding or rendering and especially running intensive programs then you will benefit from a decent overclock otherwise you might aswell leave it be
When Intel etc make processors, they select the best yields for the higher spec ones.. but the lower spec ones often have the same amount of cache etc, just a lower clockspeed/multiplier. the chance is that the lower speed one will do the same settings as the factory set higher speed one anyway. As for difference.. well my e4300 (1.8ghz dual core) is clocked to 3.0ghz . performance is much better when clocked
