Word info

overclock

Verb

Meaning

overclock (third-person singular simple present overclocks, present participle overclocking, simple past and past participle overclocked)

(computing) To run a processor (CPU), or any electronic logic device, at a speed higher than is recommended by the manufacturer.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

EVGA's GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra sports a phenomenal custom cooler, a factory overclock, and abundant overclocking-friendly features. Source: Internet

But as NVIDIA did with the Founders Edition, EVGA is also pushing overclocking as one of the selling points, leaning on their Precision XOC utility and its GTX 1070 Ti specific overclock autoscan. Source: Internet

Finally, I tried the same manual overclock I achieved with our Corsair H115i liquid cooler: 5GHz with a -2 AVX offset and a dynamic Vcore in a range of 1.284V to 1.296V. Source: Internet

For example, the 3DMark Fire Strike 4-way record was performed using an i7-5960X at 5.624 GHz (+87% overclock) with four ASUS Matrix R9 290X cards at 1460/1750 (+46% overclock), G.Skill memory at DDR4-3000 C12 and the whole system under liquid nitrogen. Source: Internet

Getting all this power into such a small enclosure is itself an accomplishment, but Falcon Northwest will overclock CPU and GPU (if you want) to really push it over the top. Source: Internet

Here we can see that the G5400 and its single thread performance does well in this test, though it's not until we overclock the 2200G that it pulls ahead. Source: Internet

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