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Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU is Already Being Overclocked to 6.9GHz
Officially speaking, Intel’s Rocket Lake-S processors do not exist yet. With CES 2021 set to kick off in literally just a couple of days time, however, we don’t have long to go before we get to check out Intel’s new CPU platform and, perhaps most importantly, exactly how well it’s…
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Breaks 3GHz Barrier Overclocked on LN2
Just one week ago, NVIDIA’s latest flagship video card the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti broke the record previously held by the GTX TITAN X, reaching 2.5GHz on LN2 but now the GTX 1080 Ti has been pushed even further by the same overclocking wizard and EVGA’s resident overclocker Vince “Kingpin”…
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Overclocker ‘der8auer’ Sets Impressive Ryzen 7 1800X Record
The well known German overclocker der8auer recently took the i7-7700K processor to new levels as he overclocked it to impressive speeds with all cores enabled. Now he’s back and he has done the same with the brand new AMD Ryzen 7 1800X chip. Okay, the Ryzen result doesn’t go nearly…
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AMD Ryzen Spotted Running Under LN2
With Ryzen getting so close to launch, it’s inevitable that pictures of the chips would eventually start surfacing. While we aren’t quite that lucky yet, we do have pictures of Ryzen samples running out in the wild. These chips are reportedly meant for reviewers as well as testing for motherboard…
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GPU Frequency World Record Set on The GTX 1060
During NVIDIA’s initial reveal of the GTX 10 series, they discussed the architecture’s overclocking headroom and ability to reach 2.1GHz without too much difficulty. Even though many chips can achieve 2.1GHz, the overclocking isn’t as substantial as previously thought. Despite this, Pascal still provides the highest GPU frequencies on record…
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Overclocking World Records Set @ Gigabyte CES 2016 Booth
CES 2016: Overclocking via liquid nitrogen can appear like a very daunting process requiring vast amounts of technical knowledge and first-hand experience. While this is certainly true to reach the top scores, there’s always an entry into this area via demonstration videos and helpful tutorials. During CES 2016, Professional overclockers Hicookie and…
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Asus Maximus VIII Extreme Sub-Zero Overclocking Review
Introduction The Maximus VIII Extreme is the new top of the line socket 1151 board from Asus that just begs to be paired with a 6600K or 6700K for some overclocking goodness. The board was built for overclocking from the ground up and it should be fairly capable in extreme overclocking…
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Dinos22 Achieves Impressive New X99 OC World Record
Extreme overclocking is something that is reserved for just a few, but those who can and do this are highly passioned and most certainly very good at what they do. Records are being set and records are being broken all the time, but today a new world record was set…
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ASUS Announces 20th Anniversary Gold Edition GTX 980 Ti
ASUS celebrates 20 years in the graphics card market with a new premium and limited edition Gold Edition GTX 980Ti. ASUS new graphics card doesn’t just sport a fancy golden design, it is also one of the fastest GTX 980Ti graphics cards and comes with advanced features for overclockers. The…
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Gigabyte GA-X99-SOC Champion Under LN2
Introduction The GA-X99-SOC Champion is Gigabyte’s overclocking-centric motherboard for the X99 chipset and is the choice of many professional overclockers and benchmarkers around the world. The board has an OC Socket much like the one that Asus’s Rampage V Extreme had when it came out, that allowed for high uncore/cache…
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MSI Z170 XPOWER is Now in Stock From Major UK Retailers
MSI’s traditional colour scheme for the overclocking range has been yellow and black for some time. However, the company’s research shows that very few people opted for this theme and resulted in lower than expected sales. Furthermore, it’s quite difficult to find components which match the striking yellow colour scheme.…
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Gigabyte Z97X-SOC (LGA 1150) Sub-Zero Overclocking Review
Introduction The Z97X- SOC motherboard is Gigabyte’s affordable overclocking-centric Z97 motherboard that is not quite as tricked out as its big brother Z97X-SOC Force. That bigger brother is geared toward quad-SLI setups with its PLX chip and it also has twice as many phases for the CPU. But with half…
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Intel Skylake i7-6700K Manages 6.5GHz on Liquid Nitrogen
The synthetic benchmarks of Intel’s highly anticipated 14nm Skylake microarchitecture have started to emerge and the results are fairly promising. More specifically, the i7-6700K is approximately 3% faster at stock in 3DMARK 11 with only a 200MHz clock deficit verses the i7-4970K. This translates to a 8% IPC improvement which…
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Nvidia GTX 980 Overclocked to 2.2 GHz!
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 9xx range of graphics cards have launched with great success, they offered incredible out-of-the-box performance that has been impressing gamers around the world, but for some, that’s not enough. The overclocking potential of the new cards have been begging to be pushed to the limits and now Swedish…
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