Overclocker upgrade
An overclocker upgrade can be used to speed up machines at the cost of higher energy consumption. Place one or more overclocker upgrades into the four right-most slots to upgrade a machine.
Each upgrade speeds up the machine by 30% and increases energy consumption by 50%. The overclocker upgrade's effects stack exponentially. For example, two upgrades makes the machine operate at 1.3^2 = 1.69 times normal speed (69% faster) and use 1.5^2 = 2.25 times the energy (125% more), not 1.6 and 2.0 (60% faster and 100% more, respectively). 8 of them will run the machine at over 8 times normal speed, and use over 25 times as much EU.
Overclocker upgrades result in poorer energy efficiency (more EU will be consumed per operation). While building multiple machines makes better use of a limited energy supply, but overclocking allows for reduced space and wiring requirements when time or compact construction are more important or energy is plentiful. The reduced efficiency can be mitigated by combining both approaches, dividing a number of overclocker upgrades evenly between a handful of machines.
An overclocked machine's speed is capped at 1 operation per tick, with energy consumption of about 8000 EU per tick, so adding additional overclocker upgrades beyond that point is useless.
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