Reviews Tips Tutorials Drivers Browse by subject . A free service rounding up the week's news, articles, tips and reviews. Quite simply, overclocking is changing the settings on your hardware to make it run faster than the manufacturer intended.
All hardware has a certain margin of speed that it was designed to run in.
Therefore, overclocking pushes the hardware past its limits. For this reason, you can sometimes run into problems. Many parts of the system can be overclocked, but the processor is the most common. Most think that it is designed to run at one speed and that it can't change. But, this isn't really true.