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so there's been plenty of buzz about Intel's new skylake processors and now they're finally here which means it's time for an overclocking guide so today will not only be running through the benefits and risks of overclocking as usual we'll also be showing you some new features of the skylake platform that could make fine-tuning your shiny new rig a little bit easier than ever before you so first off we need to answer that question new PC builders and even some experienced ones have been asking themselves since time immemorial what the heck is overclocking and why do we want to do it well the idea behind overclocking is pretty simple it's just the process of tuning your hardware to make it run faster than its original specification many parts of a system can be overclocked including the CPU video card rant and even your monitor but the most common target for people who want to tinker is