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Why aren't all CPUs 'overclocked' as a factory default?

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Mar 15, 20266135 views
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Possible Duplicate: Why are modern CPUs “underclocked”? When I was searching around for a desktop awhile back I came across a lot of discussions where techies talked about taking an e.g. 2.67GHz processor and 'overclocking' it so that it ran at 4GHz. If a CPU is capable of such speed at all, why do…

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First of all, not all CPUs are capable of overclocking. Many have fixed or range-limited multipliers. This is intended by the industry, hardware vendors are happy to sell CPUs and peripheral hardware with more freedom for higher prices. Real 'overcl…

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