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 ...

Overclocking is the process of forcing your computer to run faster than it's intended to go. You can overclock both your CPU and graphics card, which can help you run advanced programs on an older PC.

Overclocking remains one of the most effective ways to get your hardware to do more for you. There are many ways to extract more power from your GPU, but not all of them yield the same results. Some ...

When I was growing up, the PC gaming industry was regularly making such huge leaps forward that speed was everything. Whole new genres were born out of improvements in processor power, RAM, and ...

I remember the Cyrix CPU having a lot of room for overclocking and the differences were huge which was my first go at any PC overclocking in my life. I think i used that system for about 8 months or ...

While we were tossing around story ideas this week, one of the ExtremeTech guys lobbed out this doozy of a press release he received from Kingston. It basically explained how a Romanian overclocking ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

TL;DR: AMD has confirmed that new Threadripper 7000 series CPUs (both Pro and standard versions) include an integrated fuse that can be used to determine if overclocking has ever been enabled on the ...

Your monitor is like a filter for your PC’s raw performance. You may get an excellent frame rate in games, but that doesn’t matter if your monitor can’t refresh enough times to display all those ...

Intel strives for that perfect out-of-the-box experience. Intel has been making the headlines recently. If you don’t recall, it wasn’t long ago that the new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, felt that AMD was in ...