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Written: Tuesday, May 24, 2001 DisclaimerSince over-clocking is pushing your components to maximum limits usually past manufacturer specifications. With this in mind understand that you will void all warranties from the manufacturer and you will take responsibility for any damages that may incur. As this guide is covering basics only it is not a definitive guide for how to over-clock you’re computer. If you decide to over-clock you’re computer myself or HyTek computer cannot be responsible for any damages you may incur. Do this at your own risk and only when you have asked plenty of questions and fully understand what you are doing with the components in you’re computer. Over-clocking (OC for short) is simply pushing you’re computer or components past the manufacturer settings. The most common things to OC are video cards and CPU’s. Another way to look at it is getting a free upgrade like a 1000MHz CPU that you purchased as a 750MHz for example. OC is still an art or hobby more than a science, as the numbers that you will see will vary from chipset to chipset. Therefore just because you read that person A got their CPU to operate at X speed do not expect the same results. You may get close or even faster speeds in you’re attempt. There are two ways of achieving OC with CPU’s. One way is to increase the front side bus speed (FSB) that the CPU operates at. This is by far where you will see the biggest gain in performance when it comes to clockspeed. To help understand this I will work with even numbers to keep things simple. For example if I take a 600MHz CPU with multiplier settings at 6x and a FSB of 100 I am operating at stock speed. However bumping my FSB by 2 giving me a 6x102 setting would get me a 612MHz operating speed. This opens up the bandwidth that my CPU will operate from. The downfall of FSB over-clocking is that it will also affect the PCI ISA and memory operating range as everything on the motherboard will operate at the higher FSB setting. This can adversely affect the operation of your peripheral cards and memory most notably being incapable of booting your computer. If you reach this point simply back off the FSB settings. Next Page: The Basics [Page 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] [Page 4] [Page 5] [Home]
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