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- verb Alternative spelling of
overclock .
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Examples
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It includes Intel's Turbo Boost technology that allows it to over-clock itself to 2. 66GHz if it's faced with particularly heavy multitasking demands.
Crave at CNET UK 2010
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It includes Intel's Turbo Boost technology that allows it to over-clock itself to 2. 66GHz if it's faced with particularly heavy multitasking demands.
Crave at CNET UK 2010
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PCBoost does not over-clock or harm the processor, nor does it increase the thermal temperatures or stress on the processor, it simply tricks the processor into thinking the active application should be given the highest priority.
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The new processors include a "turbo" mode that allows the chip to over-clock itself when the application running calls for an extra boost.
LOOPRumors kazouz 2010
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Single + 12V rail provides more power for over-clock
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In the future it may be possible to over-clock supercomputer processors by using water-cooling to keep their temperature inside operating limits, and so gain both performance and energy consumption benefits.
Channel Register 2010
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We did not have to resort to using a high-end cooler from CoolerMaster or ThermalTake, and managed to over-clock to a stable 3.96
PC Advisor News 2010
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Westmere processors - such as the Core i5 - to over-clock (thus delivering better graphics performance) when low loads on the x86 CPU processor cores mean that the processor is not utilising its full thermal budget.
LXer Linux News Thorsten Leemhuis 2010
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The new processors include a "turbo" mode that allows the chip to over-clock itself when the application running calls for an extra boost.
LOOPRumors howard 2010
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The new processors include a "turbo" mode that allows the chip to over-clock itself when the application running calls for an extra boost.
LOOPRumors kazouz 2010
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