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What is overclocking - What is processor over clocking - Steps to overclocking

OVERCLOCKING:

Many of you must have observed an old or worn out Computer processor working faster than its capacity and its size. It means that the person has used the process of “Overclocking” on its processor. It has become a trend, buying cheaper processors, motherboard, random access memory (RAM) and speed up their performance by increasing clock rates which is already specified by its manufacturer through the process of overclocking. “Overclocking” can be defined as the process, through which a computer component is being run at a higher clock rates than it was already set on e.g. 2.4GHz is the rate which is already specified by the manufacturer but through overclocking once can make it up to 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz.

The purpose of this whole course is to squeeze out the performance of the system and to enjoy higher level of performance. Most of the people, instead of purchasing new computer processors, just sitting at home run this method on their computers and make their systems to work better than before at no or little cost. Almost all the processors are overclockable to some extent. Thus, overclocking processors makes it work faster and in more efficient way. In a limited period of time, more work can be done.

HOW OVERCLOCKING WORKS

The possibility of making the system performance higher involves a little hard work and patience so the instructions to overclock the processor are the following.

Step I: Make yourself ready with computer fans, needle nose pliers, heat-sink compound, computers, screwdriver sets, computer power supplies, processors and backup drives.
Step II: What you have to do is to check your motherboard that either it can be tune into the BIOS setup with the jumpers available or not.
Step III: Find out the clock rate set by the manufacturer in the motherboard.
Step IV: Now you have to fix all the problems occurring in the system by running all the windows available and if you have and of the third party applications like problem solving one, run them as well.
Step V: It is obvious that you would be having your personal files and documents and you would not want them to be erased so just make a complete backup of them but be careful, do not overwrite them.
Step VI: Adjusting motherboard into the BIOS setup, with the help of motherboard manual make changes and then just reboot your system.
Step VII: Now turn off your computer.
Step VIII: Now let your computer remain plugged into the surge suppressor.
Step IX: Just remove all the peripherals connected with your computer.
Step X: Take out the chassis cover.
Step XI: The next step is to take any professional grounding equipment available with you and ground yourself to the computer.
Step XII: After grounding process, place the adjustable jumpers in the motherboard that control the speed of the processor.
Step XIII: Now you have to pick the needle-nose pliers for the purpose to change the jumper settings. The jumpers should be localized as they are mentioned in the motherboard manual and set them at the desirable clock speed and if you are facing any kind of confusion just check the internet for that.
Step XIV: If you find installing a CPU heat sink and a cooling fan possible and applicable then go for it.
Step XV: Now compose your system and then reboot it again.
Step XVI: Sometimes it happens that the system doesn’t reboot but the processor kept on working. In this case try to lower the clock speed. If that also doesn’t work then you can restore the previously configured settings.
Step XVII: Now final step is just to check all the functions and in the end run a CPU- intensive program and enjoy the higher level of the performance.