Lessons in overclocking from ‘Fugger’
- Computex 2007, Gadgets, Overclocking -
By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
TAIPEI, Taiwan–The Computex 2007 IT trade show featured hundreds of PC peripherals from nearly all of the major brands with blaring signs and hundreds of marketing materials. However, in one corner of the sprawling event was a small group of tech geeks who were putting computer components into various levels of stress tests.
The group, calling itself XtremeSystems, is arguably the world’s biggest and most well-known overclocking organization, recognized even by the component manufacturers themselves.
For the novice PC builder, overclocking is the process of pushing a computer part to run beyond its intended speed. This is usually done by tweaking through software or changing the settings through the BIOS. While this enables a PC component to run much faster, a wrong configuration would burn the component itself.
