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       What is Overclocking? All You Need to Know About It
       By: magbytes120 Date: June 23, 2017, 1:32 am
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       What is Overclocking?
       If you have never heard of Overclocking before, it is the dark
       heart forcing your electronics to perform better than the
       manufacturer intended. Computer CPU’s tablet, phone and any
       other modern computing devices you own have processors inside
       them that all have something in common. Their performance is
       dictated by the design or architecture and the number of cycles
       that they can perform per second which is usually represented as
       frequency or clock speed. This is where the term overclocking
       comes from.
       You are taking the clock speed and turning it up over the
       manufacturer’s recommendation to get more performance. Clock
       speed is not the only factor so it is not like you can overclock
       a calculator to perform as well as a gaming PC, but can make the
       calculator faster relative to its original state.
       How do you do it?
       If you want to overclock, it often requires other aspects of
       your device to be run outside of specifications. The device will
       become unstable as you turn up the speed you can compensate by
       turning up the voltage, but that can cause additional power
       consumption and more heat output.
       Also, read How to overclock your graphics card easily and
       safely?
       Seasoned overclockers will have experience with anything from
       large heat sinks with fans for cooling to liquid cooling or even
       more exotic sub-zero cooling if they are trying to get maximum
       performance. More voltage also increases the risk of failure.
       So, for this reason, many manufacturers will refuse outright to
       provide warranty service on overclocked electronics. Still, want
       to do it you are not alone lots of people are willing to make
       these trade-offs that I just mentioned for more performance.
       There are comprehensive guides that exist for overclocking
       pretty much any device that would benefit from it.
       Many Android phones can be overclocked with a simple app
       download, and PC overclocking is a very popular pastime with
       gamers, video editors or anyone else who needs more performance
       from his or her computer.
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