11K views · 50 reactions | Want a bit more power from your CPU or GPU? Here's how to get started with overclocking. Find detailed instructions in our Complete Guide to PC Gaming: https://www.pcgamer.com/introducing-the-complete-guide-to-pc-gaming/ | PC Gamer | Facebook

How do you overclock your CPU? Lets take a look! First and foremost, make sure you run a benchmark to find the baseline numbers for your current setup. This gives you a good starting point that you can work from. Now you can boot into the BIOS and start messing with things! From here you can choose to use the AI overclocker or go down the rabit hole of manual tuning. Once you've made some adjustments, it's back out into Windows to run another benchmark to ensure you have stability. No use having