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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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In the slightly-bowdlerized words of GTA San Andreas protagonist Carl Johnson, "Aw, crap. Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR connectors on GeForce RTX 4090 cards...
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It wouldn't be a new GPU launch without some chaos, and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is keeping the tradition alive. Just weeks after hitting the marketif you can even call it that, given the ongoing stock shortagesmultiple reports have...
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Mark our words, this will be the year that we'll finally see a DDR5-10000 (or faster) memory kit offered at retail. It's only a matter of time, especially now that Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules (CUDIMMs) have entered the...
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There are plenty of kudos to go around when records are broken in sportsit's not uncommon for athletes to thank their training staff, teammates, coaches, parents, and anyone else involved in their achievement. So it also goes in the world...
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You've undoubtedly heard that records are meant to be broken, a popular phrase in the world of professional sports. That includes the sport of extreme overclocking. When it comes to DDR5 memory frequencies, we're seeing records suddenly...
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At some point, we'll have to scale back our coverage of a high-tech game of leapfrog involving two notable hardware teamsASUS paired with G.Skill, and MSI teamed with Kingston. Both sets have joined forces with professional...
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It's often said in sports that records are meant to be broken, and sometimes it can take years or even decades for it to happen. In the sport of professional overclocking, however, no such long waits are required, at least with regards to...
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How quickly things can change, eh? When DDR5 first came onto the scene, the speed-to-price ratio was underwhelming, to say the least. It didn't take long for pricing to settle way down, but speeds didn't seem to ramp all that quickly...
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If you're into overclocking at all, you have probably heard of Skatterbencher. He's a veteran overclocker who has held multiple historical world records, but is perhaps best known for his YouTube videos giving explicit instructions...
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Extreme overclocker Roman Hartung, who you may recognize better as 'der8auer', has been around the block a time or two, delidded his fair share of CPUs over the years, and has seen things. Lots of things. However, the close-up examination and dissection of a fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D...
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It was the case for a very long time that if you were buying a laptop, you were almost assuredly getting an Intel processor. Sure, AMD was around, and there have always been Macbooks, but both were niche products at opposite ends of the market for ages. For the overwhelming majority of users...
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Nothing Phone (2a) - Starting at $349 Nothing’s Phone (2a) is an affordable mid-range smartphone that punches way above its weight. Solid performance Cool design Beautiful display Decent cameras Outstanding battery life Clean...
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Popular German overclocker der8auer delided a Ryzen 7 8700G to see what untapped performance could be squeezed out of AMDs latest Zen 4 APU. He found that delidding the chip and replacing the stock thermal interface material with...
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Overclocker SooHo Jeong set a DDR5 frequency world record, reaching an incredible 10600MT/s utilizing AMDs new Ryzen 7 8700G APU. The new record isnt the all-out DDR5 frequency record, which is still held by Intel, but this is the...
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EK has been known for years as the company that does beautifully executed water cooling components for PC enthusiasts. The skill level needed has always been demanding for custom water cooling, leading many enthusiasts to opt for air or...
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