

Pumping up the CPU voltage goes hand in hand with the quest for higher clock speeds, but higher voltage means substantially more thermal output from the processor.


The prime enemy of the overclocker is heat. Now that I’ve opened with a Shameful Car Analogy, let’s move on to computers, specifically to overclocking. The latter, however, will get you past the ideal: putting more air into the engine than is otherwise possible. The former will get you closer to the ideal: drawing as much air as possible into the engine. You can spend $50 on a performance air cleaner or several thousand on a supercharger. T HERE IS A PHRASE well-known to anyone who has ever tried to make his car go faster than the manufacturer intended: Speed costs: How fast do you want to go? Of course, it’s all relative.
