Originally Posted by Xdeathfire
Basically what overclocking is that all cpus are sold listed with a given speed, but that is misleading since technically any cpu can run at any speed. That given speed is what the cpu will be able to run at the very minimal settings in regard to power supplied and the cooling system in order for normal people without crazy liquid cooling systems and awesome power supplies to run their cpu as stable as possible. By overclocking, you are forcing the cpu to run at a higher speed than normal, but you better have a good power supply as well as very nice fans or even better, liquid cooling. Be warned though that overclocking it too much can burn out the cpu and lead to all sorts of bad thing, but on the other hand it can be awesome since i heard that some crazy japanese guy managed to boot windows xp at arount 7 gigahertz by overclocking.