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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…?"

The radiance of a thousand suns: Overclockers set a new world record of 9.1 GHz with a P-core only 14900K
By Nick Evanson published
News Admittedly, only one of the cores hit that speed, but it's still one heck of an achievement.

Overclocked memory speed records usually don't mean squat to me but this one does because of the sheer amount of RAM involved
By Nick Evanson published
News Eight channels worth of 256 GB DDR5 running at 8,400 MT/s CAS38 is astonishing.

AMD's mighty 96-core Threadripper Pro has been overclocked with a car radiator and some big ol' beefy fans, and I am remarkably satisfied
By Andy Edser published
News For those who ever wondered if car parts had a place in their rig.
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