I am on an FIC VC37 motherboard w/ a 1.7 Ghz Cely chip in it. When I go into BIOS, the CPU clock ratio setting is at 10x. I can also change it, though I haven't saved the changes. What is this setting ...

I have an Intel D975XBX2 motherboard. In the BIOS there are some settings for processor override that I don't know much about, so if somebody would like to enlighten me I'd be more than thankful, ...

Modern CPUs are capable of squeezing as much performance as they safely can out of the box, but that potential heavily depends on not just temperature, but also how your motherboard's BIOS is ...