amzter Wrote:but what happens when you overclock your proccesor and is it good?

processors have a clock speed set up internally that tells it how fast to compute, and that speed will put off a certain amount of heat
if your system is efficiently cooled, you can turn up the cpu's clock speed, it will run faster and hotter, it will also void the warranty (warranties are explicit about running it at manufacturer's specifications)
systems are more prone to error if you mess with a bunch of settings (cpu clock speed, ram... counts/timing? what's that called again?) but you can usually find a happy balance that is stable somewhere over the manufacturer's settings, and wring a significant boost to performance out of your system

it should be said that i have never overclocked anything, this is just my understanding of what goes on.

ok amzter, no more completely off topic basic questions for another little while please
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oh - and the reason i was reading this - ive been running xp64 bit for a while now, like a year and a half/2 years, and rarely if ever have any incompatibility issues - most issues are small and fixes can be found, from my experience

but i imagine you tend to do more crazy stuff with your computer than i do bludevil :]

(This post was last modified: 06/03/2008 11:49 AM by iggrull.)