To get more performance from your aging computer or push a new computer to its limit, give overclocking a shot. Overclocking a CPU can help you get more performance from your system without spending ...

AMD's recipe for its X3D CPUs that offer a dollop of 3D V-Cache has always been straightforward. You take an existing CPU, drop some L3 cache on top of a die, then lower its clocks and TDP to ...

Genres are pretty well established, and you can have an excellent time playing PC titles with something as affordable as a Steam Deck. Yet the quest for maximizing performance continues, and a weapon ...

Ryzen 5800X3D owners are doubtless aware that their CPU isn't supposed to be manually overclocked, with AMD having locked out the ability to up the voltage. Now, though, it seems there is a ...

The Intel Core i9-14900KF has only been out in the wild officially for one day, and it's already breaking overclocking records. The team at Asus fired up Intel's latest flagship CPU and proceeded to ...

Overclocking has been done to CPUs since the days of the original Pentium, and is a common "do-it-yourself" performance boost used by gamers and consumers. While it's not for all form factors of ...

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D owners will want to replace it with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the latest flagship gaming CPU, at least according to an AMD executive. The "overclocking factor" of the 9800X3D is ...

When you think of overclockers, you probably imagine some obsessive tech nerd coming up with an elaborate contraption to boost CPU or graphics card speed. And that’s absolutely true… but sometimes ...

TL;DR: AMD believes that the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor's overclocking capabilities will encourage gamers to upgrade from the previous Ryzen 7 7800X3D model. AMD thinks that gamers will upgrade ...

TL;DR: AMD has confirmed that new Threadripper 7000 series CPUs (both Pro and standard versions) include an integrated fuse that can be used to determine if overclocking has ever been enabled on the ...

The big picture: Intel recently invited two leading overclockers to its headquarters to discuss achieving the world's first 9 GHz CPU overclock. The duo of Pieter-Jan Plaisier (SkatterBencher) and Jon ...