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“How to Overclock”: Pinoys Most Searched

Just finished a taping for one segment of QTV 11’s “Ang Pinaka” and our topic was January 2009’s most searched “how to’s” in the Philippines.

Among the top searched “how to” related topics were — how to overclock a cpu” and “how to install”. When asked why those are among the two searched terms, I was tempted to say “it’s because Pinoys are very geeky and cheap”.

In my entire computing life, I’ve only attempted overclocking a CPU thrice and succeeded in two of them. The overclocking crowd is divided into two groups.

The Practical Overclockers — those who are pennypinchers that buy cheaper and lower-rated CPUs so they can overclock them and save some dough for other PC parts. This also includes those who have older CPUs and want to upgrade but don’t have the budget.
The Enthusiast Overclockers — people who overclock their CPU just because they can.

In the Philippines, I think a lot of Filipinos belong to the first group. I know because I used to be one.

How about you? Do you have any experiences with overclocking?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

32 Comments

McBilly says:

16 years ago

Haha. That’s cool Abe. I sometimes watch that show “Ang Pinaka” and it’s pretty good depending on the week’s topic.

I have to agree on why people overclock though. Especially pinoys, a lot of filipinos buy cheap parts, build own CPU and overclock to save money. :D
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McBilly says:

16 years ago

Oh pahabol, when does this air? Para aabangan kita sa tv. Haha. :D
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manu says:

16 years ago

Overclocking is totally new word to me. Thank God we have Google.I got fully understand the term. And one thing for sure, ill be watching that show on QTV. Kelan airing nun? Para ma abangan ko din. ehehhe
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Jay says:

16 years ago

gotta save..

if overclocking’s ur game..
gotta consider some of these..

>CPU Cooling and Ventilation
>Power Supply

=)
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jox says:

16 years ago

When will it be aired? so we can watch it.
I’ve tried overclocking once with an old PC. but i never did it again.
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kill3rfill3r says:

16 years ago

uu nga kelan to?hehe
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Huan22 says:

16 years ago

I overclocked my CPU because I just wanted to and I can. I think aside from the added speed to your CPU, overclocking also gives a sense of fulfillment to those people who have done it successfully because it requires a lot of patience and setting adjustments before successfully making a stable overclocked system.
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Angelo Panares says:

16 years ago

I’m part of the first group, was still in school and I could not afford to upgrade, so a little overclocking helped out to get a little bit more juice.

But careful and practical enough not to require an additional cooling source as well as destroy the cpu.

A bit of a challenge back then but I would also agree that it was fulfilling to have done it.
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sky says:

16 years ago

I’m not familiar with CPU overclocking. With dual, and even quad cores now ever so common, I don’t believe I need the extra CPU power.

However, what I am very familiar with is GPU overclocking. My graphics card is a midrange NVIDIA card, and those few extra MHz can make all the difference. What was once a choppy game at high settings becomes very playable at the same settings.
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iva says:

16 years ago

i didnt even know “overclocking” as a word.. but then again, maybe it’s tech geek speak.
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