My knowledge of hardware is quite limited. I know which components a PC is made of and have a decent understanding of how demanding most games are, but that's about it. I've had my new PC for a little over a month, and it's loaded with a GTX 1070 Ti and a Ryzen 5 2600X. I've played around a bit with MSI Afterburner, but as far as I can tell, I get almost no boost in performance. I have also experienced crashes in games when I've had my GPU overclocked. Mostly Assassin's Creed Origins, so I stopped using it and it didn't crash anymore. I know that you can also overclock your CPU, but is that solely for editing or rendering performance boosts or would it also increase FPS in some open world games? And how do you even do it? Is there a potential risk that you'd somehow damage your hardware if you overclock it too much?