You don’t buy one of the best gaming PCs because you just want to plug it in and have it run your games. That goes double if you built it yourself. You want it to put the pedal to the metal and give ...

The best GPU overclocking software in 2023 is the same as it’s been for the past decade: MSI Afterburner. It’s an awesome tool for pushing your graphics card to its extremes, whether you’re trying to ...

Matthew is a PC Hardware Writer at XDA, having previously written for Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, and other publications since 2018. He's mainly interested in the three way fight between AMD, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Most GPUs never operate at their full potential - meaning you're leaving extra performance untapped. Overclocking lets you unlock that extra power for ...

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...

The practice of "overclocking," specifically in regards to PC components, means to deliberately push a component past its manufacturer-established limits to generate improved performance. In layman's ...

You want the best performance possible from your computer, but you can’t afford any hardware upgrades. No problem–we’ll show you how to safely overclock your ...

Overclocking is the process of increasing the system’s clock rate at a speed higher than the factory-certified configurations. In simple words, the clock rate is an indicator for the processor’s speed ...

In September, AMD added support for simple CPU overclocking to its graphics drivers. If you had a Ryzen 5000-series CPU and wanted to benefit from the extra performance, this auto-overclocking ...

When I first got my RTX 4090, I tried to overclock it to squeeze an extra 3-5% performance for "free." Unlike CPU overclocking, this was easy because all I had to do was move the core clock and memory ...