I am on an FIC VC37 motherboard w/ a 1.7 Ghz Cely chip in it. When I go into BIOS, the CPU clock ratio setting is at 10x. I can also change it, though I haven't saved the changes. What is this setting ...

I find that when it comes to people building their own PCs (or tweaking their existing rig) then the mysteries that lay within the BIOS settings are scarier to most people than anything hardware ...

Overclocking has been a staple of PC enthusiasts almost as long as computers have existed. It started with soldering of crystals and basic tiny jumps of, in some cases, fractions of a megahertz. Today ...

Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: Buy a slower, lower-cost CPU; juice up the clock ...

My Google-Fu has failed me. I have a setting in my systems UEFI that has me a little stumped. It is Core Ratio Extension Limit. It has a option of enabled or disabled. All the the description says is ...