Abstract
The article presents information on a test to damage the components of a personal computer (PC). According to the author, overclocking a PC is like playing with fire. He borrowed a Systemax Venture VX2 B67IVU and tried to see how far he could use its 2.66-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, a famously over-clockable chip, without having to revamp the cooling system. Within the BIOS one can control the minutiae of one's hardware--everything from fan speed to RAM tinning. One has to find out which board is in the PC. One can start by tweaking, rather than blowing the doors off the processor. As speed goes up so does heat and one will need either a better fan or a more elaborate water cooler.