Article: Overclocking and Tweaking Intel® Platforms
(N=Newbie, E=Hardware Enthusiast, O=Overclocker, B=Budget)
Disclaimer:
Overclocking is dangerous to your rig, voids your warranty, and can harm you emotionally and physically. Proceed at your own risk.I. Introduction
This article is targetted for beginning overclockers of Intel® systems. The aim is to aid clueless beginners on the basics of overclocking, starting up on the building blocks, and presenting information in a manner easily understood.
But before jumping in, I just want to clarify the meaning of overclocking. Simply put, by the word "over", it means going above the nominal values of a certain device, breaking the default speed, and increasing it several notches up. The goal can be different from one hobbyist to another. It can be about improving performance of the platform, getting more out of the money i.e. bang for the buck, better game response, or simply, bragging rights of having an overclocked system.
Having said that, it is also important to note that by overclocking, the system is now running out of the manufacturing specifications and may result to fatal or irrepairable damage to the system. This is the risk that overclockers must come to accept. Stability can be a major concern as well, since the system now runs beyond its set capabilities, the system may become unstable, rendering it from being useful, it's a trade off between performance and stability.
II. Scope
By the title of this article, I will be focusing only on the modern processors developed by Chipzilla. While I may not be able to present an actual example, the procedures, steps, and ideas should apply across the various range and family of processors and platforms. The processors and processors covered in this basic step are listed below:
- Intel® Pentium® 4
- Intel® Pentium® D
- Intel® Pentium® M
- Intel® Pentium® Extreme Edition
- Intel® Celeron®
- Intel® Celeron® D
- Intel® Celeron® M
- Intel® Core™ Solo
- Intel® Core™ Duo
- Intel® Centrino®
- Intel® Viiv™
