The Dangers of Overclocking

This overclocking process can be done on the CPU, the RAM, the video card, and on some other peripherals connected to their computer motherboard. This could be safe when used moderately but when used to excess, it can pose great dangers to your computer. Overclocking your computer too much and too fast can be very risky. Also, older computer hardware models have a difficult time adjusting to overclocking and are prone to damages.

Overclocking the hardware peripherals on your computer system indeed has quite a number of advantages, but it has many accompanying risks; doing that may cause lots of damaging effects on your pc. Overclocking may cause serious dangers like hardware overheating. Other undesirable results may be data corruption and complete system failure or total crashing. Worse, fire may even set up on the computer and in your home! It is best to find out and weigh all deciding factors very carefully before even going about overclocking your hardware.

Power requirements will eventually increase as your hardware is overclocked; more voltage is needed to be supplied to the peripherals because of high frequencies in effect. Circuit damage and frying are liable to happen and this can be permanent. Remember that manufacturers have designed and rated transistor chips that way, in that voltage, with the required (and maximum) temperature. Overclocking changes all of that, the chips are made to accept volts and experience temperatures very much over than the normal. With all these, the Central Processing Unit may become very unstable because it will be pushed beyond its built in design.

Some pc owners who do not think much about over clocking the pc a notch at a time step up the hardware too high too soon. Problems may crop up with that move. It is important to step up voltages and clock frequencies a notch at a time since electronic circuits by nature produce heat from all the activity going on in that cramped up board they're on. As everything goes up so does the production of heat; overclocking subjects the circuit boards to high voltages and frequencies. It produces extremely high heat which boards were not specifically designed to bear.

Some people remedy overheating by doubling fan coolers, or by substituting the computer's current fans for much bigger fans, and/or increasing fan speeds thru the aid of many softwares (speedfan is an example of these) readily available for trial and purchase (some are free)on the internet.

Some of them though replace fans with coolants. Coolants are actually more effective compared to multiple or larger fans. The problem is that liquid coolants pose additional danger on a computer since most of these liquid coolants do not fare well in direct contact with all circuit boards.

By Billy Zype