Jacob was distinctly non-plussed by the tiny uptick that is Intel's "new" 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh CPU, at least by the top Core i9 14900K chip. Might he be a bit more impressed if it ran at 9GHz?

Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: Buy a slower, lower-cost CPU; juice up the clock ...

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The Intel Core i9-14900KF has only been out in the wild officially for one day, and it's already breaking overclocking records. The team at Asus fired up Intel's latest flagship CPU and proceeded to ...

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 ...

For anyone doing "light" overclocking (not trying to push to the edge of stability) are either using the Asus AI overclock in BIOS and/or Intel XTU "good enough"? The main thing I'm concerned about is ...

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 ...

What just happened? Overclocking enthusiast der8auer recently took a trip to Intel's OC lab in Portland, Oregon. During his visit, he was allowed to see how far he could push Chipzilla's new Core ...

Graphics Cards Digging a little deeper into Intel's Xe3 architecture shows exactly why Panther Lake's iGPU is good: It's basically an Arc A770 graphics card jammed into a mobile chip Processors More ...