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I have an oral about Overclocking! **I need AT's help**
- Thread starter chocobaR
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Flyermax2k3
Diamond Member
I think you would be better off writing about something that you know about... Is that an option, or is this an assigned topic? If it's an assigned topic, you better start doing some googling 😉
Flyermax2k3
Diamond Member
google is your friend 😉 try a search for "overclocking guide" or some such. I'm sure somebody out there has a detailed guide on how to overclock. What *exactly* are you going to write the paper about? Is it just a "how-to" or are you going to get into CPU architecture and the history of overclocking and such?
Flyermax2k3
Diamond Member
Ok, here's what I would write it on if I were writing it:
I would start with a brief intro on CPUs (explain what a CPU is and how it works, perhaps touch on the different CPU architectures)
I would then progress to a simple explaination of what overclocking is and how one accomplishes it.
Perhaps you could o/c your system and write about the process from beginning to end? What better way to describe how to o/c than to actually do it yourself?
Advantages of o/cing:
(free) speed boost
get more CPU for less money
Disadvantages:
shortened CPU lifespan/possibility of frying a chip
can have sideaffects if not done properly or pushed too hard (data corruption, CPU miscalculations which lead to errors and crashes, etc)
I'm sure you can get 10 pages out of all that...
I would start with a brief intro on CPUs (explain what a CPU is and how it works, perhaps touch on the different CPU architectures)
I would then progress to a simple explaination of what overclocking is and how one accomplishes it.
Perhaps you could o/c your system and write about the process from beginning to end? What better way to describe how to o/c than to actually do it yourself?
Advantages of o/cing:
(free) speed boost
get more CPU for less money
Disadvantages:
shortened CPU lifespan/possibility of frying a chip
can have sideaffects if not done properly or pushed too hard (data corruption, CPU miscalculations which lead to errors and crashes, etc)
I'm sure you can get 10 pages out of all that...
MatthewF01
Senior member
whoa a paper/presentation on overclocking..... thats freaking badass!
maybe when i get to college Ill get to do that too....
if you have lots of time/interested people for your presentation, itd be cool if you did a demonstration and brought in a computer and benched-overclocked-benched again in like 15 minutes or something.
youd get an A for effort! hehe..
maybe when i get to college Ill get to do that too....
if you have lots of time/interested people for your presentation, itd be cool if you did a demonstration and brought in a computer and benched-overclocked-benched again in like 15 minutes or something.
youd get an A for effort! hehe..
BlueWeasel
Lifer
Well when I try to explain overclocking to my semi-techy friends, I usually start by explaining how CPUs are made and what speed binning is. You can explain why its possible to overclock a chip x% of the time without getting overly technical. From there, you can go into the more technical details and methods.