good and bad

what is the good or bad thing for overclocking a cpu and what is the advantage to set the fsb higher?why dun set the multiplier higher and lower the fsb?

good: more performance from the same chip
bad: puts out more heat which must be dealt with
bad: may make system instable if and while set too high
bad: may shorten components lives


Fsb is better because it raises memory bandwidth along with cpu bandwidth. On a current system, this is MUCH more effective at increasing performance than simply raising cpu mhz.

Good thing about overclocking = Free performance boost

Bad things = Frying the CPU pushing it too hard, Corrupted Data and other nasty things...

Using a lower Multi and Higher Front side bus increases memory throughput, since the memory speed is tied to the FSB.

yeah if you go into the technical forum there is stuff about 1x multipliers which is quite a cool read...but FSB is definetly the way to go as multiplier doesnt offer anything but a higher clock...FSB upping gives a higher clock with the extra bandwidth - and I dont know whether this is set by the chipset but I think as bandwidth usage nears its limit the latency goes up and up - so I should imagine extending this bandwidth would mean better performance in transferring larger amounts of data