PC Stats guide to figuring out whether overclocking is for you. There’s a whole subculture of people out there who are pretty much obsessed with finding new ways to get the processor on their computer to run faster than its listed speed, and to get there they’ll have no qualms about spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on advanced cooling systems to keep their rig from overheating. Often it’s just speed for speed’s sake, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to overclock your PC, like getting upping the frame rate of Quake III. Well, maybe that’s not actually a legitimate reason, but you catch our drift.