I've been looking into overclocking my CPU for a little performance upgrade, and I've been wondering whether it's actually worth the risk. It's my understanding that there are issues you are bound to face after overclocking your CPU, one being increased heat output, meaning you'd probably have to instigate alternate cooling methods to ensure proper cooling of the overclocked CPU seeing that standard heat sinks and fans aren't ideal for overclocked systems. I'm all for any opinions and/or info from those that know anything about it. Thanks


-[n3rve]

Overclocking used to be cool back in the days when CPUs were at break-neck prices, were still in the hundreds MHz and you needed that extra processing power. If your processor is in the Ghz range you can only push say 50hz or 100hz more. You need a bigger fan and an extra dab of thermal paste. Final word, don't do it if you can't handle the possible burnout of your processor.

Generally, its safer to use a software to overclock( if you must),rather than trying to tamper with your hardware. there's this GMABooster used to automatically overclock intel processors. it is quite safe to use, with good gains. there's also some others, just google.
I assume you want to overclock to enhance gaming. On my Hp Mini 5101 , GMABooster overclocked from 133 to 400Mhz made PES06 gameplay much better. seemed the underside of the machine was hotter but am sure was my imagination