If you're not a computer gaming enthusiast or a nickname that rhymes with Greek … Overclocking is a term foreign to your friends. Overclocking is usually associated with gaming machine and it is a way of strengthening the performance of your computer without paying the higher price.

Overclocking refers mainly to the change in the frequency of an electronic component, the name comes from the "Clock", which as a timer, an electronic wave, determined action sendsthe speed with which the component processes information. In relation to computers or laptops, this usually means the CPU and the FSB.