The performance gains you get with modern chips aren't as noteworthy as they used to be.

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 ...

Chinese overclocking team Wytiwx has taken the top spot in the CPU frequency world records, reaching 9.206GHz with an Intel Core i9 14900KF. Leveraging Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme and a large ...

The pursuit of 10GHz CPU clock speeds continues, with a Chinese overclocker recently pushing closer to the milestone. Using an Intel Core i9-14900KF, a new world record frequency has been set at ...

Overclocking is largely safe for enthusiast-level computing or PC gaming, but it will reduce the overall lifespan of your CPU ...

Asus has just announced that its team managed to break yet another world record, this time by overclocking the Intel Core i9-13900K to an extreme level. The CPU was able to hit a whopping 9.009GHz, ...

An increasing number of people are now gaming on PC, with estimates suggesting that more than a billion people play games on computers — a significant amount more than those who play games on consoles ...

Even pre-production Intel Raptor Lake samples showed impeccable overclocking ability. The Core i9-13900K easily breached the 8.0 GHz barrier, while its Zen 4-based competitor, the Ryzen 9 7950X, ...

Testing processor resistance with a meter. - Image: Bits und Bolts Can you predict how well your CPU will overclock by probing it with a multimeter? Before you start pulling out the Fluke, let's go ...

Officially, Alder Lake chips don't support AVX-512, but many can still execute workloads based on that instruction set. Some motherboard vendors even allow you to enable support for AVX-512 if a chip ...

What just happened? As we get closer to the release of AMD's Zen 4 processors, we're going to see more and more leaks about the chips. Today, an unnamed overclocker leaked the backside of the ...