A Survey on Different Overclocking Methods

Improving computer performance is always been an area of intensive research. Overclocking is used to gain additional performance from a given component by increasing its operating speed. Through overclocking a computer is forced to operate faster than the manufactured clock frequency. Overclocking increases the operating frequency of a given hardware such as CPU, graphics card, memory chip etc. Increasing a component's clock rate causes it to perform more operations per second. Overclocking is a complex process. There are different overclocking methods that can be used to improve the performance of computer such as BCLK overclocking, FSB Overclocking etc. This paper goes through different kind of overclocking methods.