| Dec 19, 2004 |
Introduction
The key ingredients to a successful overclock have always been good parts, good cooling and more volts. Lately however, only the third has proven troublesome. Good parts can be found with some ease now by word of mouth. Water-cooling kits have become more economical and air cooling can be very efficient at low volumes as well. When overclocking your RAM especially it is very easy to reach your boards' maximum setting for RAM volts far before you have realized the potential of your rig. Usually this problem is rectified by volt modding your motherboard, not a very appealing thought to those of us who are not very experienced soldering and those of us who do not want to void our warranty. Until recently we would have had to settle for mediocre overclocks. Then OCZ, world renowned for their high performance parts, introduced us to the "Booster". Basically the booster volt mods your board for you. It accomplishes this task by introducing clean power directly from the power supply and up to a whopping 3.9 volts of power too.
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