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overclock
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/ohvrklok/ , vt. To operate a CPU or other digital logic device at a rate
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higher than it was designed for, under the assumption that the manufacturer
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put some slop into the specification to account for manufacturing
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tolerances. Overclocking something can result in intermittent crash es, and
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can even burn things out, since power dissipation is directly proportional
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to clock frequency. People who make a hobby of this are sometimes called
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overclockers ; they are thrilled that they can run their CPU a few percent
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faster, even though they can only tell the difference by running a benchmark
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program. See also case mod.
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