Hardware.Info posted Studying the scaling capabilities of the most important Hwbot.org benchmarks
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What has a stronger effect on the most important benchmarks? Overclocking the CPU, the memory, or the GPU? Hardware.Info tries to find out using the most important benchmarks featured on Hwbot.org.Studying the scaling capabilities of the most important Hwbot.org benchmarks @ Hardware.Info
Originally, people overclocked their computer simply to make it faster. This would allow said computer to adequately run that one particular game that would under normal circumstances be slightly too demanding.