Basically you increase the threshold of the power of your system. There are tools for this, but mostly you do this out of your BIOS. Overclocking can be dangerous to perform if your system can't handle it, like having good cooling. Basically you increase the power outage I think.

Chamele0n wrote Basically you increase the threshold of the power of your system. There are tools for this, but mostly you do this out of your BIOS. Overclocking can be dangerous to perform if your system can't handle it, like having good cooling. Basically you increase the power outage I think.

Close. You increase the voltage that is used by the CPU by a small amount. Since the CPU will be taking in more power, this means that more heat will be produced, this is why better cooling is needed. As well as increasing the voltage of the CPU you have to adjust the clock speed of the CPU. This is all done through the motherboards BIOS.

Overclocking can only be done on motherboards that have the correct components and equipment for sending more power to the CPU, like good quality VRM's and heat-sinks.
Overclocking can only be performed on unlocked processors, for example, to overclock a Intel CPU it has to have the letter "K" after the product name for it to be classified as 'unlocked', for example, the i5 4670k.
Overclocking a CPU means that more heat will be produced because more power is being delivered to it. This heat needs to be dissipated from the CPU. This is why very good cooling is needed.

Overclocking means increasing the number of cycles per second in a circuit. Higher power consumption is a by-product of overclocking.

Whether you can do it with modern PC hardware depends on a lot of things like whether the CPU even allows it, whether the motherboard allows it, the motherboard's power delivery, the CPU's cooling, the power delivery's cooling, airflow to some extent, etc.

What are your specs?

Processor: AMD A8-6600K
Motherboard: (MSI) FM2-A55M-E33 (MS7721)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8570D

If you'd like anymore Info about my Specs then please specify what you'd like c:

noobsrus12 wrote Processor: AMD A8-6600K
Motherboard: (MSI) FM2-A55M-E33 (MS7721)
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 8570D

If you'd like anymore Info about my Specs then please specify what you'd like c:

Your CPU and board will allow you to, but assuming you have stock cooling, you shouldn't do anything more than raise the multiplyer by a few bins and maybe undervolt. The power delivery is not made to handle overclocking.

Thanks for all of your help!
I'm more than likely going to be overclocking now c: