Basic of PC Overclocking 

Overclocking a PC generally make your system run faster than the normal speed to some extend. But first of all while talking about Overclocking first of all let's discusses what Overclocking is.

What is Overclocking?

Overclocking basically relates to a method through which you can change the speed of working of your system by changing the many parameters of your system. This generally relates to the method of changing the clock speed of the CPU or Processor. We will later on discuss the various parameters and also about the processor speed.
In Overclocking method we generally have to set or change the speed of the Processor so as to increase the speed or processor working. So one has to be very much careful
in applying this method as this may not only damage your processor but also other components and Peripherals too.

  
Parameters of Overclocking

There are many of the CPU Parameters through which you can make configuration so as to change the clock speed of the Processor. These parameters as will be specified below will depend on the Processor to Processor. In some of the Processor you can have the Overclocking done by changing one of the Parameters and in others you can do it by changing any other Parameters specified below. So first of all decide and check what parameters you are gong to modify in order to have the Overclocking done.

1. FSB (Front Side Bus)

This is the speed of your Front Side Bus with which your CPU communicates with the Peripheral devices, Memory, Graphics Card etc. The Overclocking can harness this speed or can change this speed to optimize the performance of your system. But at all as I said it all depends on the Processor which we use. Some may support your FSB configuration speed and some may not support this.So one must be very much specific about having configuring this.

2. Base Clock Speed 

This is another speed which also is greatly harnessed by the Overlockers. The Base Clock Speed is the speed which you rarely have in the specifications of any of the Processors. For example Core 2 Duo E6750 is having a Base Bus Speed of 333MHz. Now we can calculate its FSB by multiplying 333 by 4 for the Core 2 Duo E6750 processor. We can change this Base Bus speed and automatically can change the speed of the FSB. So one or the other way we are changing the Speed of the operation of the CPU or the Processor.

3. CPU multiplier

The CPU multiplier is another term through which we can calculate the speed of the Processor. Take for example the Core 2 Duo E6750 has the CPU multiplier of 8X that means if we multiply FSB of CPU with the multiplier that is 1333MHz multiplied by 8 yields you with the Processor speed that is 2.67 GHz in this case. But mind it the CPU multiplier is different for different processors. I have taken the example of Intel Core 2 Duo E6750. The Base Multiplier is only a term for the Intel Processor but it is not so for AMD one. For AMD it is called HyperTransport base clock. So never get confused with these terms.

Now above are listed some of the parameters with the help of which you can definitely change the Speed of the Processor or can apply the Overclocking process to your Processor. But we have to be very much careful in having to do so