IndustrialCraft 2/Guide/Overclocker Upgrade

Overclocker Upgrades can be used to speed up machine processing, and are crafted like so:

Each upgrade decreases processing time to 70%, but increases power usage by 60%. Adding more than 1 upgrade stacks the effects, so adding 2 would result in a processing time of 49% compared to normal, but use 2.56 times more power. As you can see, this will rapidly increase, adding 4 for example would drop the processing time to 24% but the power cost would be 655.36% more than normal.

There's no need to work this out manually, as hovering over Overclocker Upgrades tells you how much of an effect adding that much would have on a machine. Meaning for the previous two examples, you would see: and

It should be noted too that processing time can never exceed more than process 1 a tick, meaning adding more than about 12 Overclocker Upgrades to any machine is just wasting power, as although the speed of the machines cannot exceed 1 process a tick, it can still draw an extra 60% power per Overclocker.