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[Doug Sutherland]

Overclocking, how it is done, depends on the processor and the 
motherboard. On some motherboards, actually it's the BIOS, 
you can change the clock multipliers in BIOS. Others may have
jumpers, but in some cases you have to actually modify the 
processor using a tedious process of changing on chip jumpers.
I wouldn't want to mess with the latter option. My motherboard
allows changing the bus and cpu clock in bios. What will happen
though, unless you add new cooling methods is often the OS
will crash due to corrupted bus data, memory data, or even 
instructions. Overclocking should be considered just a hobby
for the purpose of "because you can". It's really not useful for
regular apps unless you have lots of time and patience to try 
many different clocking schemes. If you do plan to overclock
then get better heat sink and better fans for processor and 
the case itself.

  -- Doug