Discover More About Overclocking and How It Can Increase CPU Speed

Overclocking is a trick to increase the clock rate of a computer’s components, to make the component run faster than its original speed. Overclocking is usually applicable to CPU or GPU, but you can do that other components too.
 

If you increase the clock rate of your computer components, it will make your computer work faster than usual, but your computer could get heat up tremendously. So, besides doing overclocking to your computer components, make sure you have a super cooling and you do routine maintenance. Here you can read more detail all about overclocking.
 

The CPU of your PC or laptop has been designed by its developer to work with certain maximum speed. Running the CPU at a speed that higher than its maximum speed with its built-in cooler can make your computer work slow. But having a proper computer cooler it will work without problems.
Overclocking is not just limited only to increase the speed of your CPU, but it also makes you possible to set the height of the clock rate or multiplier in BIOS in increasing the CPU speed, forcing it to work harder in second.
 

This will make your computer CPU work faster, but there will be some components that generate tremendous heat and require proper cooler. If you do not provide proper cooler, some components of the computer will be damaged, unstable or the operating system will restart itself.

Can I do Overclocking?

The answer is depending on the motherboard you use. Commonly the most sold kind of motherboards in the market is those are Intel CPU motherboards with locked multiplier. This kind of motherboard prevents you to make value changes and overclocking. But Intel also provides Intel CPU motherboard specifically for overclocking, namely the Extreme Edition with an unlocked multiplier CPU.
 

If you are assembling a super fast and powerful gaming PC, firstly you should have a water cooling system. It is a hardware tool that work very good to get your overclocked CPU or components under control overclock, so you no need to worry about overheat. But if you have only a standard PC, you may not be messing about with overclocking.

The Advantages of Overclocking

Obviously, as explained above, the advantages of overclocking is to boost your computer run faster than usual. But it seems overclocking is no longer needed over the development of computer technology. For example, when a hard drive within a computer that been overclocked, the capability is still inferior to the usual computer that uses SSD hard drive. But otherwise, if you do overclocking on a computer that using SSD hard drive, you will see drastic high performance improvement.
For game lovers who would like their computer hardware run faster by using overclocking techniques, it seems that now modern CPUs do not need it anymore. Modern CPUs that use a fast graphics card will not having any effect when using the overclocking technique.

How to Do Overclocking

It needs different way for every computer, and every motherboard has different BIOS settings. It is almost impossible to make a tutorial to do overclocking for everyone. But here you will see the basic points only.

Make Sure You Have a Cooling System

Your computer CPU was marketed with its built-in cooler and fan from the manufacturer, which is has a design and capability to reduce the predictable heat that generated by the standard CPU speed. If the CPU speed increased, automatically the heat will also increase and therefore you should add an extra cooling system. An extra cooling system could be in the form of aftermarket cooling to remove heat or to blow air to the CPU more powerful. This requires a large space on your computer, so the air will not stay inside.

Use Water Cooling System

A hardcore overclocking may needs a water cooling system, which is certainly more expensive than usual cooling system. A water based cooler will pump water to the radiator as the coolant to expel hot air out of CPU. Cooling water is much more efficient.     

Overclock BIOS

You can also go into the computer BIOS and increase the CPU clock rate or voltage. Gradually increase and boot into your computer, if the system stable, by running Prime95 benchmark software you can determine the use and the temperature of the computer to get the right cooling settings for your computer components. By increasing the BIOS setting gradually until the computer unstable, then it requires you to set the BIOS stable level which will be very effective than directly setting it far higher than the normal.

Disadvantages of Overclocking

When you do overclocking for your CPU, means that you're doing something that you should not do, which this technique will make your computer warranty is no longer valid. The heat of your computer's CPU will also increase either because of improper cooling or because of overclocking it too much, which would make the CPU get damaged permanently.

Hardware failure in overclocking is a common thing to happen, but most happened to overclocking is the computer runs unstable. Unstable CPU will make some mistakes on the computer system that may cause the computer restart.
 

If you do BIOS overclocking, you should increase the clock rate gradually, to which the least stable and least unstable phase point becomes the same. You should also make sure that the cooling works properly, so that the computer components remain run smoothly. In some cases there is a computer with has no enough CPU space which makes the computer components heat up quickly. Therefore, in case your computer has not enough CPU space, do overclocking. 

Conclusion

Overclocking is not only aplicable for computer, but also for smartphones. Besides to to make computers and smartphones run faster, you also need to check the heat level that is generated by overclocking. If you do not have a proper cooling system, the hardware will be easily damaged or even explode.