I am on an FIC VC37 motherboard w/ a 1.7 Ghz Cely chip in it. When I go into BIOS, the CPU clock ratio setting is at 10x. I can also change it, though I haven't saved the changes. What is this setting ...

I find that when it comes to people building their own PCs (or tweaking their existing rig) then the mysteries that lay within the BIOS settings are scarier to most people than anything hardware ...

I have a 1.1GHz T-Bird, on an Asus A7A266 mobo, 128MB PC266 ram. When I assembled the thing (some time ago), at the bios I just selected the 1100MHz option on the CPU speed and left the CPU multiple ...

First click the setting icon in the upper right. Click "TurboV EVO". In the default state where CPU magnification lock is not released with UEFI, since this screen is displayed, click "CPU Ratio ON" ...

Overclocking has been a staple of PC enthusiasts almost as long as computers have existed. It started with soldering of crystals and basic tiny jumps of, in some cases, fractions of a megahertz. Today ...