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Can overclocking get 8 GB AMD and Nvidia graphics cards to the performance of their 16 GB versions? Yes, but I've got some bad news for you too
By Andy Edser published
Need for speed While the 8 GB RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti cards can often match their 16 GB brethren, VRAM limitations are still a barrier too tall for overclocking alone.

'Overclocking should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money,' says VP of Intel's enthusiast chip business
By Jess Kinghorn published
News The future looks bright—just not in this hardware generation.

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit
By Nick Evanson published
News That rear IO panel is giving me the ick, though.

If I had just set a new world record for GPU overclocking, I'd surely be making a lot more fuss about it than AMD has
By Nick Evanson published
News Hitting 4,769 MHz on any GPU is no small feat.

A top overclocker has managed to destroy a $5,000 MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z with the fury of a thousand suns. Well, the default voltage of a 2,500 W extreme overclocking BIOS
By Nick Evanson published
News Unless you're using liquid nitrogen, 1.2 volts is instant death for a big GPU.

MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently
By Andy Edser published
CES 2026 Still, if you're going all in on an RTX 5090, why not turn everything up to 11?

This 'shunt modded' Asus RTX 4090 laptop beats the latest RTX 5090 portables but you'd be very brave to do this to your own machine
By Jeremy Laird published
news Up to 35% faster than a standard RTX 4090...

'It crawls into every crevice, stains your cables, and turns teardown into a full day regret spiral.' That's what awaits you if you plan on immersing your graphics card in automatic transmission fluid for a spot of messy overclocking fun
By Nick Evanson published
News Vital engineering research to answer the question, "What if…?"
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