Manually overclocking your CPU for more FPS
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What it does
Pushing your CPU past stock with a manual all-core overclock to gain frames in games.
The honest verdict
Graded risky. Modern CPUs already boost themselves hard, and games mostly lean on one or two fast cores — so a manual all-core overclock often LOWERS the single-core boost a game wants while raising heat and the chance of random crashes, for little or no gaming gain. That is why this is graded risky: real downside, thin upside. …
It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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