Overclocking computer systems is a fun way to extract some free performance, or at least see how far you can push the hardware before you run into practical limitations. The newly released Raspberry ...

Navya Pramod, a systems engineer in Intel’s overclocking lab in Hillsboro, Oregon, pours liquid nitrogen to cool down a 9th Gen Intel Core i9-9900K processor during an overclocking demonstration in ...

Believe it or not, you can make AMD's latest king of the gaming CPU world even faster, and it won't even cost you any money. In this guide, we'll show you how to overclock the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ...

In the same way that top-fuel dragsters have no bearing on how we use everyday cars, overclocking the twangers off a CPU using extreme cooling methods doesn't have much practical use, but it's super ...

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...

Chinese overclocker wytiwx has established a new CPU frequency world record after successfully pushing an Intel Core i9-14900KF beyond 9.2 GHz under extreme cooling conditions. This now places the ...

What just happened? Intel's recently released 14th-generation Core processors are mostly a minor upgrade over their predecessors. Still, overclockers have proved that their performance gains are ...

Overclocking is the process of pushing a CPU or GPU beyond its factory-set speed limits to improve overall PC performance. It is commonly used by gamers, creators, and enthusiasts who want extra power ...

Disappointed at the slow speeds of your old Intel processor? An overclocker at XtremeLabs.org reports getting the clock speed of a 3.06GHz Celeron processor up to a blistering 8.20GHz, setting a new ...