Does overclocking make the cpu fold faster?

[science man]

I think I was told that how quick a cpu can do calculations doesn't depend on how ghz it has. Is that true?

[benbaked]

Yes, overclocking will make the CPU fold faster, provided you don't overheat it and kick in the thermal protection. How fast a CPU can do calculations depends on a number of things, namely clock speed and processor architecture. For example: a 3 GHz Core 2 Duo will crush a 4 GHz Pentium D in folding@home. Because of the different architectures the Core 2 is able to do more work per clock cycle, despite the Pentium D's higher clock speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth

[science man]

oh ok thanx.

[jintatsu]

It does make it faster but be sure your OC is stable..