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- verb Present participle of
overclock .
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Examples
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For a budget 890GX board this is an interesting choice, though for long-term overclocking stability it may be worth spending more.
Atomic 2010
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But Kelt Reeves, president of gaming-PC maker Falcon Northwest, said he has been able to use a technique called overclocking to operate the chip at four gigahertz -- boosting performance by a third -- with little increase in power consumption.
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Fusion also allows you to do 'semi-automatic' overclocking, which is a good way for a novice to learn if so inclined.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes."
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We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes."
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This power gating will allow each core to be shut down individually on the Llano chip, which incidentally will have a kind of overclocking capability like Intel's Turbo Boost and IBM's TurboCore features.
The Register Team Register 2010
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Rooting also allows for various other functions that apps on the Android Market provide, such as overclocking and taking screenshots.
AVForums.com 2010
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- We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes."
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You've got unintentional biases, marketing weaknesses, "overclocking" issues, and all kinds of other mental bugs you may not know about.
Lifehacker 2010
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We've maintained that Intel's range of Atom chips were simply too weak to really love and adore the way a slab of silicon should be, but that's probably because of our infatuation with things like "overclocking" and "Core i7 Extremes."
androgenoide commented on the word overclocking
Serious overclockers tend to be preoccupied with the heat generated by a processor running above its rated speed since that is what will destroy it. I knew a guy who constructed a rather elaborate water-cooled system to keep his CPU from burning up...
February 24, 2010