At its most basic level, overclocking is exactly what its name implies—making a component, such as a CPU, memory, or video card run at a clock speed above its rated frequency. If you’re willing to accept (and are equipped to handle) the extra heat and increased power consumption that inevitably result from overclocking your components, your reward is a PC that performs better—sometimes much better—than before.
Changing the mode by which the memory clock speed is linked to the FSB (frontside bus) is the most common way to overclock system memory. Some motherboards, such as those based on the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset, also give users the ability to manually adjust memory clock speeds completely independent of the FSB.
Just my quick comment is that this article is a great reading material for beginners/overclockers out there! So be sure to get the written issue of CPU magazine, issue April 2007, Pages 64-70.
I would include more text and pictures from this, but I haven't had the time to contact CPU magazine, and ask for a permission to use more of the text/pictures from this great article.
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