Overclocking is the term used to describe the process of running a computer component at a higher frequency (more "clock cycles" per second) than it was originally designed.

This involves a great deal of careful experimentation. Since many components of a computer work symbiotically, just making the computer's clock run at a higher frequency is often not the best way to optimize the performance of a system as a whole. Factors involving the BIOS settings, the RAM, the motherboard chipset, the various possible BUS speeds, and cooling to keep everything running stable, must all be taken into consideration to create the highly desired result of producing a much faster computer.

Even when all of these engineering considerations have been carefully met, there is still another monumental hurdle to overcome: heat! One of the side effects of increasing the clock speed is the tremendous amount of excess heat that is constantly produced. Unless the computer is cooled significantly, the heat usually forces the system to execute a thermal shut down, sometimes without notice. If this shutdown is delayed for whatever reason, permanent damage to the electronic components can occur, and all of your hard work would have been for nothing.

To achieve faultless, stable, higher overclocking speeds requires a great deal of skill and experience. All of our experts know how to overclock each component in the system so that it will run for years without malfunction.

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