What even is clocking :P

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I see a lot of people talking about overclocking and underclocking and all those fancy words  can someone explain to me what is going on and what do they mean just a newbie here

[kelvinhall05]

Think of overclocking as having your engine in your car rev past its factory redline. It gets hotter, uses more gas, and can sometimes be dangerous, but it usually runs faster and has more power.

 

On the other hand, underclocking (never heard of it, maybe you mean undervolting?), is like lowering the factory redline of your car. It gets better gas mileage and runs cooler, but has less power and is less fast.

[jiyeon]

Overclocking is the process of going over the stock multiplier (or clock speed) of the CPU, in an effort to gain more performance from the CPU.

By overclocking, the CPU is able to handle more instructions-per-cycle (IPC) based on the speed it is overclocked to.

 

For example, a stock i5-8600K is set to 3.6GHz, we can overclock this to 4.4GHz by going into UEFI and adjusting the multiplier to 44. This enables the CPU to execute more cycles per clock, hence overclocking.

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11 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Think of overclocking as having your engine in your car rev past its factory redline. It gets hotter, uses more gas, and can sometimes be dangerous, but it usually runs faster and has more power.

 

On the other hand, underclocking (never heard of it, maybe you mean undervolting?), is like lowering the factory redline of your car. It gets better gas mileage and runs cooler, but has less power and is less fast.

thanks for the explanation man 

 

11 hours ago, seoz said:

Overclocking is the process of going over the stock multiplier (or clock speed) of the CPU, in an effort to gain more performance from the CPU.

By overclocking, the CPU is able to handle more instructions-per-cycle (IPC) based on the speed it is overclocked to.

 

For example, a stock i5-8600K is set to 3.6GHz, we can overclock this to 4.4GHz by going into UEFI and adjusting the multiplier to 44. This enables the CPU to execute more cycles per clock, hence overclocking.

that helped a lot thanks!

[Syntaxvgm]

Your computers speed is tied to clock rate, the rate of a small clock in your pc. 

But what defines time? Who says what a second is? 
International Organization for Standardization, that's who. In order to overclock your PC, you need to call them (+41-22-749-0111) and tell them you want to overclock your pc and give them your mac address (ipconfig should tell you.) From there, they will make time faster your your pc. Of course, time is time, but they're simply changing how long your pc's clock thinks a second is, therefore making it run faster.
Note that in the 80s in 90s, this was actually done manually by swiss watchmakers if you didn't have internet, and was very expensive for a service call and plane ticket for said watch makers. They aren't watches, but clocks in pcs are very small, and they're the only ones qualified to adjust them manually. 

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Just now, Syntaxvgm said:

Your computers speed is tied to clock rate. 

What what defines time? Who says what a second is? 
International Organization for Standardization, that's who. In order to overclock your PC, you need to call them (+41-22-749-0111) and tell them you want to overclock your pc and give them your mac address (ipconfig should tell you.) From there, they will make time be faster your your pc. Of course, time is time, but they're simply changing how long your pc's clock thinks a second is, therefore making it run faster.
Note that in the 80s in 90s, this was actually done manually by swiss watchmakers if you didn't have internet, and was very expensive for a service call and plane ticket for said watch makers. They aren't watches, but clocks in pcs are very small, and they're the only ones qualified to adjust them manually. 

thanks for the trolls

 

[Mooshi]

It make thing go fast

[Sniperfox47]

17 hours ago, seoz said:

Overclocking is the process of going over the stock multiplier (or clock speed) of the CPU, in an effort to gain more performance from the CPU.

By overclocking, the CPU is able to handle more instructions-per-cycle (IPC) based on the speed it is overclocked to.

 

For example, a stock i5-8600K is set to 3.6GHz, we can overclock this to 4.4GHz by going into UEFI and adjusting the multiplier to 44. This enables the CPU to execute more cycles per clock, hence overclocking.

One small correction here. It doesn't increase the IPC. The IPC is fixed to the architecture of your CPU.

 

Instead it just increases the C (clock) of IPC, which in turn increases the I (instructions).

 

More instructions means more work done.

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5 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

One small correction here. It doesn't increase the IPC. The IPC is fixed to the architecture of your CPU.

 

Instead it just increases the C (clock) of IPC, which in turn increases the I (instructions).

 

More instructions means more work done.

so it handles more instructions without slowing down u mean

[daddrian]

Overclock - force things to work faster.

 

Examples:

GPU overclock is when you increase core clock from 775MHz to 900MHz (force GPU to work a faster 125MHz on graphics, so higher FPS) , or when you increase memory clock from 1100MHz to 1200MHz (force GPU to transfer graphics to memory at a higher speed).

 

CPU overclock is when you increase CPU frequency like from 3.5GHz to 4.1GHz.

 

Overclock is when you aren't pleased with the component and you want more performance out of it. But overclocking also comes with a risk if you don't know what you're doing.