What is overclocking?

[Turkish]

hi guys,

im not too good a PCs so iv found my way here to ask you,

What is over clocking and is it a good or bad thing?

how do i find out if i have it?

I have the following set up,

ASUS mother board, A8V Delux
AMD 64 3200+
1.5 GB DDR 400 ram (Kingston)
450 watt power
ASUS DVDR
ASUS CDR
120GB HARD DISK
ASUS 512GB Graphics card
56k modem for back up
normal A drive,

and all the normal extras lik mic webcam speakers bluetooth,

So what you think? good set up?

Regards

Turkish

[DanTheBanjoman]

Overclock is running hardware above it's default frequency. For example you have 200Mhz RAM (400DDR) if you'd run it at 220Mhz for example it would be 10% overclocked. The same can be done with processors and various other things.

Is it good? It could be, higher frequencies USUALLY means higher performance. It does usually make hardware use more power and therefor create more heat. Also hardware will run unstable if overclocked too far.


About your system, it's nice overal, though I can't say anything about your videocard or harddrive since you didn't say what exactly they are.

[djbbenn]

My guess that the video card is a X800Xl, thats the only 512 card I know of. :)

-Dan

[wtf8269]

I'm pretty sure some 6800 Ultras come in 512mb.

[djbbenn]

Yup your right Aaron, I just checked...but it still has my guess as a XL. Everyone seems to buy them now.

-Dan ;)

[HookeyStreet]

That must be some graphics card...its 512GB LOL :D

[mitsirfishi]

well overclocking is basically just pushing your speeds of whatever you are overclocking just past factory speeds voiding the warrenty but can befits about this in benchmarks and games increase in fps