AMD’s follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you’re ...

When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz ...

We're still a couple of weeks away from the AMD Zen 5 launch but that hasn't stopped AMD showing off the full extent of its new CPUs' capabilities, at least when it comes to overclocking. In a new AMD ...

Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve ...

Why it matters: Earlier this month, overclocking enthusiasts discovered it's possible to overclock Intel's non-K Alder Lake CPUs when paired with a high-end motherboard. For instance, with the right ...

Don’t know what overclocking is or how to overclock your CPU? Don’t worry, we’re about to walk you through it. If you’re thinking of upgrading your CPU to optimize your gameplay, why not take a look ...

AMD lifted the curtain on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in January, making the bold claim that it was the “world’s fastest gaming processor.” It’s a big statement for a chip that, under the hood, is the same as ...

What just happened? An overclocked AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5990X engineering sample in a custom liquid cooling loop managed to get over 100,000 points in the Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark. It got ...

One of the best ways to evaluate the performance of your CPU is to run one of the many great benchmarks that are available. They’ll test its raw performance in both single-threaded and multi-threaded ...

TL;DR: The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU has been leaked in a gaming benchmark for the game Factorio, confirming its existence and testing phase. However, the benchmark results are unreliable due to ...

Have you never overclocked your system ? Are you afraid of the BIOS? Would you like to get some extra free performance from ...

Buying a CPU is often much more than a necessary upgrade — it can determine the platform you'll stay on for the foreseeable future, and the features you'll have access to. This is why it's important ...