Debunking overclocking FUD

The naysayers have it wrong. Or do they?

We're finally in a day and age where overclocking is no longer regarded as a forbidden dark-art. In the days of yore, companies such as Intel would strongly oppose overclocking. Many dodgy hardware vendors would swap clock crystals, muck around with jumper settings, and pull all sorts of finicky pin modifications to up the power of low end CPUs. Then they'd sell the systems as high end configurations, with misleading model numbers and clock speed specifications, to trick users into thinking their system is of a higher calibre.