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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology with

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff dot com. Well, hello there everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulette

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Speaker 1: and I am an editor how stuff works dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting across from me, as always is seen your writer

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. If I am out of my mind, it's

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Speaker 1: all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. All right, I

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Speaker 1: was a short one today, Yes, And today to start

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Speaker 1: off our episode, we have a little Facebook feedback you be.

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Speaker 1: This comes from Brian, who says I've been listening to

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Speaker 1: you guys since almost the beginning. Keep up the great work.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could do a podcast about

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Speaker 1: over clocking. You can talk about what it is, how

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Speaker 1: it works, in the pros and cons of it. I've

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Speaker 1: had some experience myself and can tell you it's well

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Speaker 1: worth it. Can't wait to listen to your next podcast. Well, Brian,

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Speaker 1: this one goes out to you. Now. We've talked a

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Speaker 1: let's let's kind of go back and talk about what

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Speaker 1: a clock cycle is and why it's important and what

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Speaker 1: overclocking actually means. Yes, now, this is something we talk

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Speaker 1: about a long time ago, A long long time ago,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the Mega Hurt Smith and you know,

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Speaker 1: necessarily all that important. In fact, that it's kind of

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Speaker 1: funny looking at computers now, um, because now that the

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Speaker 1: because it's got multiple cores processing, it's able to do this.

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Speaker 1: This was written by H. Gilbert, and Gilbert said that

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Speaker 1: I'm told it's rather chilly. Um, But the people at

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Speaker 1: You're making the seeds warm up. But so, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: quite a bit of there's quite a bit of tinkering

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Speaker 1: that could be involved with this that you know. It's

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Speaker 1: not just a oh well, I'm just going to turn

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Speaker 1: this one up to eleven and we're good. Yeah, there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of resources out on the net that

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Speaker 1: will help you out if you want to try this.

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Speaker 1: And really, the nice thing is there's so many that

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Speaker 1: you just plug in whatever processor you have and the

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Speaker 1: get some returns from people who have gone through this

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Speaker 1: process and they can tell you what worked for them

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Speaker 1: or what you know, what things to avoid. Um And

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Speaker 1: like I said, there are a lot of communities out

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Speaker 1: full message boards just dedicated to overclocking and the different

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Speaker 1: techniques that they used. And uh, you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the the subtle, the subtleties of what it is they're saying.

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Speaker 1: But but it's totally doable. I mean, in most cases,

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Speaker 1: it's doable without you ever having to crack open your computer,

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Speaker 1: which is the best part, right you know, because you

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Speaker 1: every time you have to open your computer and take

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Speaker 1: stuff out, that eliminates a significant percentage of the people

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Speaker 1: who would have tried it otherwise just because it's either

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Speaker 1: too much of a hassle or they find it too intimidating. UM.

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Speaker 1: Two things though to to make sure. One that you

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Speaker 1: don't make assumptions on similarities. That was one thing that

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Speaker 1: gotten the bug. You're seriously thinking about this now, and

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Speaker 1: that you're reading a post by someone who's done it,

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Speaker 1: who's who's got a chip that's a little that's just

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Speaker 1: a little different than yours. Don't go by that information.

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Speaker 1: They said that, Um, from from what I have read

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Speaker 1: from people who have written instructions on so you want

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Speaker 1: to overclock your computer, well here's what you should do.

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Speaker 1: That was one of the things that I read several

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Speaker 1: times was if you've got something that's very similar to

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Speaker 1: what you've got to the instructions from, don't don't go

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Speaker 1: someone who knows instructions based on the specific stuff that

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Speaker 1: with this, you could seriously damage your computer. And uh,

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Speaker 1: that's the other part. Make sure that you're really willing

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Speaker 1: to give this a try, knowing that you might really

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Speaker 1: muck things up for the insides of your machine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you're careful, you probably don't really need to worry

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Speaker 1: so much. But it's good to have in the back

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Speaker 1: of your mind because otherwise, you know, if you you know,

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Speaker 1: if you do the typical what we like to think

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Speaker 1: of as the typical American thing, we're more equals better, right,

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Speaker 1: you might be let's craig it up to eleven and

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Speaker 1: the next thing you know, your machine doesn't do anything anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's not it's not doing anything faster than any machine

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Speaker 1: you've ever had. My computer does nothing at the speed

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Speaker 1: of light. It works great as a doorstop. Yeah. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure that there will be somebody out there who's

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Speaker 1: listening listening to this podcast who has had experience overclocking,

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Speaker 1: and they're going to write in and say, no, Jonathan

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Speaker 1: and Chris, it's easy to overclock, maybe for some people,

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Speaker 1: but for some systems and for some systems, but um,

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Speaker 1: you can't. You can't. You can't at play that universally

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Speaker 1: across everybody. And uh, and it's it is possible that

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Speaker 1: if you're not careful, you could damage your computer. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't have a need for overclocking, if you're

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Speaker 1: not playing lots of of of high resource demanding games

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Speaker 1: or or other applications that just require a lot of

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Speaker 1: processing power. Um. I mean, it could be a fun

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Speaker 1: experiment if it's something that you just want to try

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Speaker 1: like an old machine lying around that you don't really

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Speaker 1: care about and you just want to have the experience

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Speaker 1: of overclocking something, that's fine. But if you don't really

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Speaker 1: have a need for it at all, I really don't

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Speaker 1: see any reason to do it, because ultimately, if you

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Speaker 1: are overclocking your machine to really push its limits, that

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Speaker 1: is it is not just a time investment, but it

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Speaker 1: is a money investment too, because you will have to

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Speaker 1: find some way to address that heat problem. It's not

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Speaker 1: you know, because your computer when it was built, was

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Speaker 1: built with a certain amount of heat in mind and

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Speaker 1: nothing beyond that, and you're gonna be generating a lot

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Speaker 1: more heat than what that computer was designed to handle.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, if your office is in the breeder,

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Speaker 1: that may not be such a problem. Yeah, some days

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Speaker 1: I wonder if we are so that wraps up this

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