June 11th, 2007  
svarog
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The point in overclocking is making the CPU clock tick faster.
This of course means extra electricity going through your CPU.
Extra electricity in turn means extra heat produced, and if you have no extra cooling added, as HAL stated, you might easily fry your CPU.

Anyway, never try overclocking if you don't know what you are doing, and have a thermometer installed on your CPU.