Overdrive
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Overdrive can mean any of the following:
- Overdrive (mechanics), a part of automobile transmissions aimed at increasing fuel efficiency.
- Overdrive (music), the practice of forcing output of a guitar amplifier past maximum, resulting in distortion.
- Overdrive Special and Overdrive Reverb, two models of guitar amplifiers by Dumble Amplifiers.
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Computers
- Intel 80486 OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades.
- Pentium OverDrive, a CPU specifically designed for personal computer upgrades.
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Games and toys
- Over Drive (arcade game), an arcade racing game by Konami.
- Top Gear OverDrive, a racing game for Nintendo 64 by KEMCO.
- Overdrive, a powerful attack in the game Final Fantasy X, and a form of Limit Break established by the series.
- Overdrive, a part of the Transformers Alternators/Binaltech toy line.
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Culture
- Overdrive, a magazine aimed at truck drivers.
- Maximum Overdrive, a 1986 horror film based on a novel by Stephen King.
- Sci-fi Overdrive, a radio show on BTRN.
- MTV Overdrive, an MTV broadband video channel.
- Mona Lisa Overdrive, a 1988 science fiction novel by William Gibson.
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Music
- Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a Canadian rock group;
- Interstellar Overdrive, a track from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album by Pink Floyd;
- Overdrive, a track from Because I Can album by Katy Rose;