Overclocking Guide Part 3: How To Gain 81% For $27

Test Setup

Anyone who simply wants to see the performance gains should feel free to skip to "Step Four: Evaluating Gains". Those interested in the raw numbers will want to look through the pages in between.

Increased performance is what drives us to overclock, but these gains will only affect some parts of the system. Because overclocking is meant to boost CPU, RAM, and graphics performance, we concentrated on these three areas during testing.