“Overclocking your PC for increased performance has its obvious benefits, since a faster PC will make your tasks quicker. Perhaps you encode a lot of video, are heavy into the Folding@Home scene or have some other CPU intensive task that you perform on a regular basis. Maybe you are a gamer and every fps counts. Perhaps you simply want to see how far you can push the limits of your system you have painstakingly put together. What ever your situation, when it comes to overclocking the first obstacle you will need to overcome is heat.”
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