While still quite expensive right now, there's no doubt of the performance potential Intel's Core i5-750 brings to a market where the extremely popular Core 2 Quad products once ruled. Once the price ...

In our original review of the Core i3-530 CPU we loved the chip but found overclocking wasn't quite as fruitful as we'd liked. We thought the BIOS of our favourite Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 motherboard ...

Overclocking has been a staple of PC enthusiasts almost as long as computers have existed. It started with soldering of crystals and basic tiny jumps of, in some cases, fractions of a megahertz. Today ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Tanstaafl is a term popularized by sci-fi writer Robert ...

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 ...

The Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) just got a game-changing upgrade called AppTune and it could be one of the most important things to happen to PC overclocking in years. Intel's XTU software isn't ...

As you're no doubt aware, for some considerable time now – since Sandy Bridge processors were introduced by Intel – overclocking hasn't been possible (or rather, any real overclocking hasn't) and CPUs ...

Now, in fairness, Intel does have a point here. Although you can overclock their non-K processors (albeit, having knowledge of how this works is clearly to your advantage given the lack of any OEM ...

The days when you could overclock your Intel “K” or “KF” chip with impunity, while liquid nitrogen vapor wafted through the long tresses of your hair, are over. On Monday, Intel abruptly ended its ...

Your computer's central processing unit, or CPU, is designed to run at a certain speed. However, some CPUs can be pushed a little farther, giving you more performance for your dollar. This is called ...

So far, Intel manufactures the CPUs with the highest quality, hence the probability of a successful overclocking is highest with Intel CPUs. In case you want to overclock a Pentium 133, try to avoid ...