Kage said:Sure. That metal battery you see on the motherboard is what keeps the bios memory in place with all your settings you've set in bios (del at bootup). Don't worry about this though. You shouldn't need to replace it in the motherboards lifetime, and if you do, its just a straight swap and doesn't do your hardware damage at all.
it can be used for example to reset the bios if you set a setting wrong and can't go back by simply taking it out for a couple of hours to wipe the memory on the bios chip.
Overclocking is basically where you push the system father than specified by the manufacturer. Most CPU's, RAM, and Video cards can be pushed a bit harder to work if you have a good system to back it up, though I wouldn't experiment without knowing what you are doing first.
It takes alot of eexperience for example to overclock a CPU and get a performance boost from it.
I hope this helps
shuai said:what is bios anyway? Is it the black screens that appears and you check stuff if they work.
Kage said:Yeah, but it prooves my point, you do need to know what your doing. You can't just raise the clock as far as you want, hoping its going to work. Theres the Vcore, and all that you need to look at too. Thats what I meant by experience. I for example know alot about PC's but I haven't yet tried to overclock my CPU. I've overclocked my graphics card (didn't do much) but not that.
I only have the standard CPU heatsink and fan which is useless though for it.
It also matters on the motherboard and CPU too Smurkey, some CPU's aren't unlocked (Means you can't overclock that easily), so you can't just raise the multipliers and FSB...
I'm sure with a bit of practise though shuai you could, and if you are realy determined to do it you'll learn quicker