The simplest and easiest way to understand a very general concept of overclocking is that of increasing the processor frequency to improve performance. The lucky few among you may have a system that runs at 5GHz or above. Extreme overclockers however, go well beyond that limit.
On November 4th 2016, Australian Overclockers held a public panel at the PAX AUS 2016 event at the Melbourne Convention center. Hosted at the Wombat Theater the panel will discuss the difficulties encountered when overclocking beyond 8GHz and will include an impressive live demo of an LN2 cooled overclocked system running at 8GHz!
http://x.hwbot.org/event/pax-aus-2016-panel-pushing-limits-overclocking-beyond-8-ghz/
4. Overclocking
Overclocking is the process of increasing a computer component’s
operating frequency in order to obtain higher computing performance
Some people do it for higher gaming or video-encoding performance
The extreme overclockers do it to figure out what are the limits of
hardware components
5. Overclocking
• Nowadays most processors
operate at 3 GHz or higher.
• Overclockers achieve 4.6 GHz or
higher – stable
• Extreme overclockers go higher.
A LOT HIGHER
6. 1613 MHz
September 3, 2000
3027 MHz
October 9, 2001
5126 MHz
July 3, 2003
6009 MHz
May 25, 2004
7133 MHz
August 10, 2005
8000 MHz
January 21, 2007
8429 MHz
September 2, 2011
8794 MHz
November 19, 2012
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 Jan-00
Jan-01
Jan-02
Jan-03
Jan-04
Jan-05
Jan-06
Jan-07
Jan-08
Jan-09
Jan-10
Jan-11
Jan-12
Jan-13
Jan-14
Jan-15
Jan-16
OperatingFrequency
GHz Overclocking Frequency Record