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 ...

You may have seen the story last week about Der8auer overclocking a Core i5-12400's six cores to 5.2 GHz, or even this morning's story about HiCookie taking a dual-core Pentium Gold chip to 5.8 GHz ...

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 ...

Intel has announced the end of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP). An end-user who previously bought a PTPP from Intel was guaranteed a one-time replacement CPU if they fried their chip by ...

Intel will soon introduce CPUs and motherboards which use an 800 MHz FSB, and begin to phase out its 400 and 533 MHz products. From a stock performance perspective, this is a wonderful ...

Intel's in-house overclocking and tweaking utility called Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) has gained a new version with 7.8.0.21. This latest release brings Windows 11 22H2 support and more. Intel has ...

In brief: Some hardware enthusiasts were no doubt thrilled to learn earlier this month that non-K Alder Lake CPUs can be overclocked when paired with the right motherboard. Intel, it seems, isn't as ...

If you know what you're doing and are willing to put in the time and research, overclocking is still a great way to squeeze out some added horsepower for essentially a free performance boost. You also ...