Neowin News Feed for: Overclock

Even 420 AIO may not be enough to cool upcoming 6.2GHz Intel 14900KS that draws over 400W

Sayan Sen — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:46:01 +0000

Intel's 14th Gen chips are like overclocked variants of the 13th Gen parts in many instances. The company is soon about to launch its KS part in the form of the 14900KS, whose specs have leaked. Read more...

The new Intel i9-14900KF processor was overclocked up to a new world record

John Callaham — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:36:02 +0000

The ASUS ROG OC CPU overclocking team has apparently set a new world record by pushing the clock speeds of the new Intel i9-14900KF processor beyond 9 GHz and perhaps even to 9.1 GHz. Read more...

Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900KF QS goes 6.2GHz OC using a chiller

Sayan Sen — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:56:02 +0000

An Intel Core engineering sample chip, the Core i9-13900KF QS, has been overclocked to 6.2Ghz on the P-cores and 5.2Ghz on the E-cores. This was made possible with the help of a chiller. Read more...

Intel XTU 7.8.0.21 brings overclocking to Windows 11 22H2, adds Raptor Lake support

Sayan Sen — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:14:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Gigabyte breaks MSI's DDR5 overclocking record just two days later reaching 10,022 MT/s

Sayan Sen — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:02:01 +0000

HiCookie, who is the in-house OC guru at Gigabyte was able to overclock the company's Aorus RGB DDR5 memory all the way up to 10,022 MT/s, past 10,004 MT/s, which was the previous record set by MSI. Read more...

AMD's new EXPO feature to reportedly allow RAM overclocking on next-gen Zen 4 laptops too

Sayan Sen — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:02:01 +0000

AMD recently announced that it is really serious about DDR5 overclocking on its next-gen Ryzen 7000 Raphael CPUs. As such, a new report says that the company is bringing a new EXPO feature for that. Read more...

Official overclocking support is allegedly coming to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D soon

Sayan Sen — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 18:20:01 +0000

AMD is allegedly working to add official overclocking support to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The new AMD SKU is an excellent gaming part but is locked despite being an enthusiast-class product. Read more...

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D could embarrass as the chip reportedly can't overclock

Sayan Sen — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:00:01 +0000

AMD is launching new Ryzen refresh CPUs soon. However, rumor has it that the flagship Ryzen 7 5800X3D can not overclock as it is a locked SKU, making the 5800X3D the first Zen CPU to do so. Read more...

Unlocked Skylake-K processors heading to laptops

Moshe Jacobs — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:22:01 +0000

At IDF 2015, Intel announced that it is expanding overclocking to laptops with its next-generation processor family, Skylake. Some manufacturers are already building prototypes to demo the new chip. Read more...

Core i7 Skylake processor reaches nearly 7GHz

Moshe Jacobs — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 23:08:01 +0000

Breaking records, a professional overclocker reaches impressive speeds of near 7GHz using Intel Core i7-6700k 'Skylake' processors. Read on to understand how these speeds were achieved. Read more...

Intel dumps plans to overclock solid state drives; will release performance SSD instead

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:40:55 +0000

Intel has abandoned plans to offer solid state drives that could be overclocked by their owners in favor of a new SSD line, the 730 series, that the company claims pushes performance to the limit. Read more...

Report: Intel to reveal ways to overclock SSDs September 10th during IDF

John Callaham — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 16:27:36 +0000

Intel will reportedly reveal how users can overclock SSDs with its Ivy Bridge-E platform for the first time as part of a session during its annual Intel Developer Forum on September 10th. Read more...

AMD "Vishera" CPU sets a World Record 8.67GHz frequency

Steven Parker — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:03:21 +0000

An overclocker by the name of AndreYang has set a world record in CPU frequency of 8.67GHz using the FX-8350 AMD chip, but only after two previously set records were set just yesterday. Read more...

AMD's Trinity APU overclocked to a whopping 7.3 GHz

Tim Schiesser — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:50:42 +0000

One of AMD's new Trinity A10-5800K APUs has been overclocked to 7.3 GHz on two cores thanks to some liquid nitrogen cooling, with a 5.1 GHz overclock also achieved on just air cooling Read more...

TechSpot: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 'Super Overclock' Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:15:44 +0000

With most manufacturers scared to push the GTX 580 far beyond its reference spec, we were surprised when Gigabyte announced its solution which treads on deeper water than the competition dares to. Read more...

TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.5.2

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:52:11 +0000

TechPowerUp has released version 0.5.2 of GPU-Z, our popular graphics hardware information and diagnostic utility that gives you information about the installed graphics hardware in your computer, and lets you monitor various parameters such as... Read more...

ABIT intros video card overclock tool

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:43:19 +0000

ABIT today launched its first ATI-based graphics cards to incorporate overclocking software derived from the code its ships with its overclockable motherboards. The RX600 Pro-Guru, X600 Pro-HDTV and RX300 SE-Guru boards both ship with vGuru,... Read more...

Intel warns vendors not to overclock 865 chipsets

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:23:09 +0000

CHIP FIRM INTEL warned that system manufacturers and users that attempt to overclock 865 chipsets using PAT (performance acceleration technology) may end up with systems that are not under warranty. The stern warning sends out... Read more...

OCSystem XDream OverClock System Review

Steven Parker — Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:09:39 +0000

Thanks John of I am not a geek for sending us the following mail: OCSystem.com specializes in OverClocked Gaming systems. Today I am looking at there XDream System. I am still trying to decide if... Read more...