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 ...

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 ...

A step-by-step guide to pushing your AMD Ryzen processor beyond its limits. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AMD's latest Ryzen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overclocking is a way to get more performance out of your computer's hardware components. There are three major hardware components that can be overclocked; the CPU, DRAM, and GPU. Today you will get ...

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 ...