Our weapon of choice is the stonkingly gorgeous MSI 790FX-GD70. We found the MOSFET-northbridge heatsink really gets very hot when running at elevated CPU (offset) and VDD voltages, so we threw on an ...

Overclocking remains one of the most fulfilling hacks you can do to your home computer, but it’s not exactly something you can just jump into without any prior knowledge—though it’s certainly easier ...

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If you think that overclocking is solely for performance-obsessed geeks armed with bottles of liquid nitrogen, it’s time to reconsider! Even a small bump in PC performance can delay the need to ...

Starting with the Athlon 64, AMD moved away from a traditional frontside bus architecture in favor of using an integrated memory controller and a HyperTransport bus. This meant learning new terms and ...

Intel XTU is an application that allows you to manage your computer’s performance. If it is overheating, you can undervolt the CPU; if you think performance is an issue, you can overclock it. In this ...

Supermicro's dedication to the enthusiast high-end desktop world has recently been solidified with the launch of their C9X299-PG300, which is not only designed to provide you with the latest ...

Intel's Skylake microarchitecture has come a long way since it was introduced. The basic microarchitecture is used in Kaby Lake CPUs, Kaby Lake-X CPUs, Coffee Lake CPUs, and with slight modifications ...

We've recently put in a considerable amount of effort into overclocking AMD's socket AM3 Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition, so we're quite intimate with how it fares on the MSI 790FX-GD70, which has ...

The first menu in the Asus Crosshair IV Extreme BIOS is labeled "Extreme Tweaker" and contains all the overclocking options. We set the Ai Overclock Tuner to manual and increased the vcore voltage to ...

Learning how to overclock your CPU and GPU is one of the easiest ways to improve your gaming PC's performance. While overclocking used to be something only liquid-nitrogen equipped techies did, the ...