If you play computer games or do video editing and you are not satisfied with the speed of your computer, you can increase the performance of your machine without incurring material costs. To do this, you must do something called overclocking the processor. This can be done by raising the system bus (FSB) frequency.
Instructions
Step 1
Enter the BIOS of the motherboard by pressing the "Del" key on the keyboard at the beginning of the computer boot.
Step 2
Find in the BIOS the appropriate section of the menu that is responsible for changing the system bus frequency, it can be FSB Frequency, Host Frequency or Host Speed (since the names of this menu item may differ in different motherboards, look in the instructions for the motherboard for the names of the options you are looking for in your model's BIOS).
Step 3
Raise the system bus frequency by 5-10 percent, then save the installed changes and restart the computer. If everything is normal, the system will start at a higher system bus and processor frequency.
Step 4
After loading the operating system, run the CPU-Z program and check that the processor clock speed has increased.
Step 5
Check the processor for stability, using, for example, the program for testing the performance of 3DMark video cards, or compress several hundred megabytes of data with the archiver.
Step 6
If the system passed the test and it behaves stably, reboot and start over: go to the BIOS, increase the FSB frequency even more, save the changes and test the system. If the system freezes or reboots during testing, return to the system bus frequency when the system was stable.
