Tag: Overclock

CPU Overclocking Explained

By William Donaldson on October 11, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Overclocking, defined as the process of increasing a component’s clock rate, is often applied to a CPU or GPU in the goal to improve performance by producing more operations per second. A CPU comes from the factory set to run a certain maximum speed; this speed is typically […]

Hard Disks and Bottlenecking

By William Donaldson on June 27, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Hard disks used in servers are typically different than those used in desktops. The speed that the platters spin can significantly affect the performance of the entire server. Some of the various performance parameters used in hard drives are transfer rates, seek times, and latency. A hard […]