Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve ...

Most people probably have graphics card performance in mind when firing up 3DMark, a popular benchmark for helping to determine how good a system or GPU might be at playing games. The benchmark tests ...

When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz ...

The Intel Arc A380 isn't the fastest GPU around, but overclocking the newcomer could significantly boost performance in games like Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077 and God of War. The A380 Arc GPU isn't ...

Intel Raptor Lake is now stomping around the gaming CPU scene, and the flagship chip has snatched a speedy world record. While AMD previously reigned supreme in terms of frequency, an overclocking ...

The most dedicated PC gamers spend hours and hours tweaking their hardware to squeeze out every possible ounce of performance. So it’s no surprise that when some AMD fans saw the latest Radeon GPU ...

In a nutshell: For many, modern high-end overclocking is arguably more about the sport of it than gaining much of a sustained performance edge. These days, throwing obscene amounts of voltage at ...

For a "conservative" OC tool, the NVIDIA App gave me remarkable results ...