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It appears Kingpin is back, and if his new collaboration with ASUS bears fruit, he plans to bring back custom Kingpin-designed GPUs. Kingpin's historic nine-year tenure at EVGA ended in 2022 when EVGA shut down its GPU division, seemingly...
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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 over the details of this story, because it's both more and less interesting than you might expect from the...
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Are you an overclocker? If note, you may be theexactly the audience for "Hypertune", a subscription service that promises to improve your PC's gaming performance "with one click." While some of the claims made by the company don't...
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Intel hasn't released a graphics-focused desktop processor since the beloved (but not for its graphics) Broadwell-C family back in 2015. Since then, AMD has completely cornered the market for budget desktop gaming and SFF PC builds with...
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You're probably expecting us to be talking about one of the extant Bartlett Lake processors based on re-reheated Raptor Lake silicon. Nope! This is a Core 9 273PQE, one of the long-rumored 12 P-core LGA 1700 CPUs. However, lest you accuse...
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AMD can now officially lay claim to the world's fastest overclocked GPU frequency, a feat it achieved in collaboration with professional overclocker Splave on a modest Radeon RX 9060 XT. Using liquid nitrogen (LN2) to keep temps in...
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Overclockers are arguably known for their lack of restraint, but the latest RTX 5090 experiment feels like a particularly vivid illustration of that point: BIOS files from MSI's absurdly overbuilt RTX 5090 Lightning Za card that...
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Over on Overclock.net, user OC_Beer posted what appear to be the first leaked overclocking results for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 9850X3D. The chip isn't even on shelves yet, as AMD only announced it at CES 2026less than two weeks ago, but if...
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Talk about a literally cold move. Barely a week after Patriot Memory and Gigabyte tag teamed a DDR5 world overclocking record at 13,211.4 MT/s (6,605.7 MHz), G.Skill and ASUS said, 'Hold our beer' and stole the speed crown in collaboration...
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One thing that's often said in sports is that records are meant to be broken. That applies to the sport of overclocking, and to that end, Patriot Memory's Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5 memory just set a validated memory frequency record, with...
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Memory performance is a critically overlooked part of system performance among client users, especially gamers, and the reason is because memory overclocking is both tedious and risky, as it can produce silent data corruption even if an...
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Chinese tech YouTuber Geekerwan's latest video shows just how far you can push AMD's new Threadripper Pro 9995WX, a 96-core, 192-thread Zen 5 workstation chip that costs a staggering 100,000 (~$13,800). And when we say "push," we mean hook...
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If you're the kind of person who thinks "warranty void" sounds like a challenge, Prema, a well-known American overclocker and modder, has something wild for you. In a recent video from GizmoSlipTech, Prema's shunt-modded Eluktronics...
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As G.Skill is prone to do from time to time, the memory maker is laying claim to another overclocking world record for the fastest DDR5 memory frequency ever achieved, this time with the help of bl4ckdot, a seasoned professional...
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The mighty ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 is setting records against the competition. We're not talking about high-price records, even though GPUs are certainly at eye-popping levels these days. Instead, we're talking about the popular...
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At Computex 2025, veteran overclocker Pieter-Jan "Skatterbencher" Plaisier set a new world record for graphics processor frequency by pushing Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 285K to its absolute limitspecifically, the simply-named...
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Bartlett Lake is a real, confirmed CPU family for Intel's LGA 1700 platform. The company confirmed its existence back at CES 2025. However, it's designed by the company's NEX group and aimed at edge compute and networking use, not high-end...
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As any sports athlete can attest, records are meant to be broken. For example, the Boston Celtics are coming off an historic NBA season in which the team claimed the most three-pointers ever in a single season, draining a staggering 1,370...
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Get ready for some possibly big changes the next time you shop on Amazon. With nearly half of Amazon resellers being based in China, the recent Trump Administration trade tariffs are expected to affect not just the price of goods, but...
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We're still waiting for the first retail release of a DDR5-10000 memory kit (memory makers are trying to get there), but in the meantime, overclockers have repeatedly blown past that hurdle in a series of world records. The latest...
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Forget for a moment that it's almost impossible to find a GeForce RTX 5090 in stock or that pricing on some of custom models is way above NVIDIA's baseline MSRP for its Founders Edition variant. All that aside, ASUS is touting a rash of...
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