overclocking What is Overclocking?

[MegaMadness]

Now, I thought I knew what Overclocking was. Just a way to increase the performance of your GPU/CPU/RAM isn't it? But what does it do? I lately did some research and found out about things like Base Clock and Turbo Clock. Correct me if i am wrong, but Base Clock is the minimum frequency that your Computer Part operates at and Turbo Boost is the maximum frequency that your Part operates at. Turbo Boost is activated when you have lower Temperature and there is room for improvement.

 

So that leads back to my question. If we have Turbo Boost, then what is Overclocking? Does it improve the base Clock? The Turbo Clock? Both? What does it actually do?

[IgorM]

1 minute ago, MegaMadness said:

Now, I thought I knew what Overclocking was. Just a way to increase the performance of your GPU/CPU/RAM isn't it? But what does it do? I lately did some research and found out about things like Base Clock and Turbo Clock. Correct me if i am wrong, but Base Clock is the minimum frequency that your Computer Part operates at and Turbo Boost is the maximum frequency that your Part operates at. Turbo Boost is activated when you have lower Temperature and there is room for improvement.

 

So that leads back to my question. If we have Turbo Boost, then what is Overclocking? Does it improve the base Clock? The Turbo Clock? Both? What does it actually do?

 

[MegaMadness]

9 minutes ago, IgorM said:

 

Well, this doesn't answer my question of what 'Overclocking' does. ;p

[Skiiwee29]

11 minutes ago, MegaMadness said:

Now, I thought I knew what Overclocking was. Just a way to increase the performance of your GPU/CPU/RAM isn't it? But what does it do? I lately did some research and found out about things like Base Clock and Turbo Clock. Correct me if i am wrong, but Base Clock is the minimum frequency that your Computer Part operates at and Turbo Boost is the maximum frequency that your Part operates at. Turbo Boost is activated when you have lower Temperature and there is room for improvement.

 

So that leads back to my question. If we have Turbo Boost, then what is Overclocking? Does it improve the base Clock? The Turbo Clock? Both? What does it actually do?

https://www.howtogeek.com/165064/what-is-overclocking-the-absolute-beginners-guide-to-understanding-how-geeks-speed-up-their-pcs/

[IgorM]

13 minutes ago, MegaMadness said:

I lately did some research and found out about things like Base Clock and Turbo Clock. Correct me if i am wrong, but Base Clock is the minimum frequency that your Computer Part operates at and Turbo Boost is the maximum frequency that your Part operates at. Turbo Boost is activated when you have lower Temperature and there is room for improvement.

 

3 minutes ago, MegaMadness said:

Well, this doesn't answer my question of what 'Overclocking' does.

 

2 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/165064/what-is-overclocking-the-absolute-beginners-guide-to-understanding-how-geeks-speed-up-their-pcs/

understanding turbo boost and overclocking you can see the diference

[LamoidZombieDog]

23 minutes ago, MegaMadness said:

Now, I thought I knew what Overclocking was. Just a way to increase the performance of your GPU/CPU/RAM isn't it? But what does it do? I lately did some research and found out about things like Base Clock and Turbo Clock. Correct me if i am wrong, but Base Clock is the minimum frequency that your Computer Part operates at and Turbo Boost is the maximum frequency that your Part operates at. Turbo Boost is activated when you have lower Temperature and there is room for improvement.

 

So that leads back to my question. If we have Turbo Boost, then what is Overclocking? Does it improve the base Clock? The Turbo Clock? Both? What does it actually do?

overclocking is increasing the Frequency (GHz) of the cpu, and giving it more power, therefor it will run a bit faster then when it comes stock, meanwhile producing more heat

[Jurrunio]

Base clock is the clock speed it will reach as long as temperature doesnt reach the maximum limit (CPU and other parts of the mobo included). CPU one is called Tjmax btw.

 

Turbo clock is a higher clock speed, which is raised when more requirements are reached like power draw and temperature (varys from 0 to 20C lower than Tjmax)

 

Overclocking means pushing it further than the turbo clock (or base clock, to those without turbo clock) yourself. That sometimes need specific chipsets and CPUs to work. Motherboards usually automatically remove the power limit when you start overclocking, which means all it cares is the Tjmax. In other words, it feels like tuning the base clock and disable the turbo clock.

 

There is a 'limited unlocked' thingy from Intel back in LGA 1155. Chipsets that support overclocking can increase the turbo clock by 400MHz for each core stepping with locked CPUs. It's gone for now.

[Bhav]

Nah, its the fine art and hobby of owning too many time telling devices.

[Sumea]

When you have way too much wallclocks to your wallspace. You significant other can help with that.

 

 

 

 /joke.