[SOLVED] What does it do?

[Fred3rz06]

I dont really know what overclocking does

 

[drea.drechsler]

I dont really know what overclocking dose

hmmmmm.... it gives you something to do when it's too cold in the garage to work on your pro-stock dragster.

haha...joke...but not exactly. Like a dragster, it's a way to get more power out of your machine by exploiting margin the design engineers left in the parts.

 

[extreme_noob]

This is a bit of a loaded question. Chips have a "clock speed" which they run at. In each clock, a chip performs an instruction. Overclocking pushes this clock speed even higher than usual. This allows it to perform more instructions per second, meaning more performance. However, pushing it too high can cause instability and crashes. Increasing voltage increases stability. However it also increases temperature, since the power draw of the chip is higher (power = current * voltage). Higher temperatures can also cause instability. Too high voltages or temperatures (rather, fluctuations in temperature) can degrade a chip.

 

[COLGeek]

See here:

https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/overclock

https://www.pcworld.com/article/198882/overclocking_for_newbies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking