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Name: marz Date: October 3, 2002 at 19:40:02 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: p4 1.2ghz 128ram
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what is overclocking? where can i find out the temperature on my pc and other info?
Overclocking is increasing either the multiplier of the cpu(most are locked now)or fsb or front side bus of your motherboard to increase the mhz of your cpu. On most motherboards this also increases your memory speed hence your machine is faster as well as other hardware so you need to be careful think of what happens when you run your car in 1st gear you put more strain on the engine and the engine gets hotter. Hot is bad.
If your mobo supports it you can download motherboard monitor 5 or you might can just look in your bios hit del at startup or F1 or something and check the hardware tab or monitor
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Name: 666 Date: October 4, 2002 at 19:25:57 Pacific
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overclocking is running anything in your pc faster then spec.
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Response Number 3
Name: marz Date: October 4, 2002 at 19:42:50 Pacific
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thanks for the replies
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Response Number 4
Name: phill Date: October 11, 2002 at 03:40:30 Pacific
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Long booting time.
