Overclocking a system - any point to this?

[The Unknown Gamer]

I know it seems like everyone is overclocking every part of their computer.
I even saw on The Screen Savers recently of someone wanting to overclock their graphics card (Not a very bright idea according to them). Then recently I've been seeing posts here about overclocking consoles - why? To me nearly every console I've ever heard of works just fine, except for Neo Geo CD, Sega CD and Phillips CD-I. I just am wondering what is the point to this, or do you really get any benefit out of overclocking a console?

[Flack]

Already discussed in several threads on this board. Here's just one of them:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21201&highlight=overclock

The general idea is that certain games with lag won't lag anymore.

[omnedon]

The CD systems you listed have issues that have nothing to do with CPU clock speeds.

Overclocking computer hardware is no big deal.