Overclocking
Across the internet, from online forums such as Reddit to various other tech media outlets, there's a lot of furor around reports of Intel's top-end 14th and 13th Gen K series of processors running into stability issues. As Intel's flagship chips, these parts come aggressively clocked in order to maximize performance through various implementations of boost and turbo, leaving them running close to their limits out of the box. But with high-end motherboards further goosing these chips to wring even more performance out of them, it would seem that the Intel desktop ecosystem has finally reached a tipping point where all of these efforts to boost performance have pushed these flagship chips to unstable conditions. To that end, Intel has released new gudiance to...
The Intel Skylake i7-6700K Overclocking Performance Mini-Test to 4.8 GHz
At the time of our Skylake review of both the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, due to the infancy of the platform and other constraints, we were unable to probe...
107 by Ian Cutress on 8/28/2015
Clevo P750ZM: GTX 980M Overclocking Investigated
We posted our full review of the Eurocom P5 Pro (Clevo P750ZM) last week and mentioned that we were investigating overclocking potential. Armed with an updated VBIOS and running...
34 by Jarred Walton on 3/20/2015
Unlocked Socketed 65W Broadwell Iris Pro Desktop CPU Demoed by Intel at GDC15
The next twelve months are set to be exciting times for the desktop space for Intel. While the current fifth generation mobile processors are coming to market, and the...
78 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2015
NVIDIA Mobile Overclocking - There and Back Again
The past few months have been a bit interesting on the mobile side of the fence for NVIDIA. Starting with the R346 drivers (347.09 beta and later), NVIDIA apparently...
36 by Jarred Walton on 2/20/2015
MSI X99S MPower Review: Sting Like a Bee
In our recent run of overclocking focused motherboards, we have had a couple of interesting contenders. Sub $300 is a difficult market to attack for X99 overclockers, and MSI...
12 by Ian Cutress on 2/17/2015
GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion Motherboard Review: Low Cost X99 Overclocking
When we ask the motherboard manufacturers about overclocking, most of them say that it is an integral part of their hardware line-up as well as a point to distinguish...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2015
ASRock X99 OC Formula Motherboard Review: What is the Overclocking Formula?
Within each motherboard manufacturer, there is typically a design team for each market segment they are targeting, be that server, channel or gaming. Overclocking is slightly different as most...
17 by Ian Cutress on 12/30/2014
Holiday Guides 2014: Z97 Motherboards for Haswell
Writing one guide for all of the Z97 motherboard range seems a little odd. It is possible to consider each market segment and price range to come up with...
16 by Ian Cutress on 12/9/2014
ASRock Z97 OC Formula Motherboard Review: Less Lamborghini, More Yellow
ASRock is quietly confident of its OC Formula range. We awarded the Z77 version because of its aggressive tactics at the $240 price point and while the Z87 model...
20 by Ian Cutress on 10/2/2014
Haswell-E Comes, ASUS and G.Skill Take Overclocking Records
In our Haswell-E coverage we did some basic 24/7 type overclocking suitable for the system under the desk, and there will be users with custom loops willing to go...
16 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2014
Exclusive: ASRock’s X99 OC Formula Motherboard in Pictures
To add another element to the current whirlwind of X99 motherboard shots being released, ASRock has now lifted the lid on its high end overclocking motherboard, the X99 OC...
33 by Ian Cutress on 8/25/2014
Short Bytes: Intel's Devil's Canyon
In early July, Intel released two new processors that go by the codename "Devil's Canyon" (DC). You can read our full review, but if you just want the executive...
30 by Jarred Walton on 8/4/2014
Overclockable Pentium Anniversary Edition Review: The Intel Pentium G3258
Many industries, both inside and outside of technology, are versed in the terminology ‘cheap and cheerful’. When enthusiasts were overclocking their CPUs at the turn of the century, this...
96 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2014
Devil’s Canyon Review: Intel Core i7-4790K and i5-4690K
In the latter part of the last decade, getting performance on the cheap meant buying a low end processor and learning how to overclock it. This is how I...
117 by Ian Cutress on 7/11/2014
GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force Review
Overclocking motherboards are here to stay. The $200 overclocking motherboard market seems to be growing, even when overclocking is limited to specific processor SKUs. Intel’s Devil’s Canyon models...
17 by Ian Cutress on 6/17/2014
Computex 2014: ASRock to release Z97M and Z97 Anniversary for Pentium-AE
With the new overclockable Pentium processor soon coming to market, named as Pentium-AE and listed under the title ‘Pentium G3258’, it offers an opportunity for some low cost overclocking...
9 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2014
G.Skill Overclocking World Cup at Computex 2014: $10,000 for #1
Extreme overclocking using LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen) to get the best scores possible has had a recent infusion of interest from PC component vendors. In the past there were...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2014
Computex 2014: GIGABYTE’s Liquid Nitrogen Memory Overclocking Motherboard, Z97X-SOC Force LN2
Taking a track day car to an event for regular road vehicles seems a bit unfair from the point of view of the regular drivers, however in order to...
7 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2014
Gaming Immersion: OverclockersUK Launch Infinity Emperor Chair and Workstation
For any of our readers that do not frequent computer forums, one of the big draws to various places on interwebs is the unique and custom builds that individuals...
38 by Ian Cutress on 11/20/2013
MSI ‘Master Overclocking Arena’ 2013: The Final
These past few days MSI has held their annual competitive overclocking event, the ‘Master Overclocking Arena’, in Taipei. Following a preliminary overclocking competition online, with tickets evenly distributed...
3 by Ian Cutress on 10/21/2013
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