Windows 11 now spikes your CPU just to open the Start menu, and the fact that it works makes it worse.

Intel may be making an interesting move with its next generation of desktop processors. Recent reports suggest Intel will offer "more and more unlocked SKUs over time" with a goal to enable easy ...

The 6700K is a decade-old chip but still puts up decent performance numbers in games.

Elvis Shida is a Tech/Hardware Writer from Kenya. He has been building PCs for a decade and is keenly interested in motherboards, monitors, and gaming TVs. When not building PCs or writing about ...

Overclocking is a bit of a dying art these days. Both Intel and AMD have allowed their CPUs to boost within certain clock speed ranges without any user interference for years now. For a lot of people, ...

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D owners will want to replace it with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the latest flagship gaming CPU, at least according to an AMD executive. The "overclocking factor" of the 9800X3D is ...

More details about AMD's new Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs are leaking out of the rumor mill right now, and the latest nugget is that you'll reportedly be able to overclock AMD Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs when they come ...

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When you think of overclockers, you probably imagine some obsessive tech nerd coming up with an elaborate contraption to boost CPU or graphics card speed. And that’s absolutely true… but sometimes ...

GIGABYTE, the world's leading computer brand, achieved several milestones in overclocking, including a DDR5-13556 MT/s world ...

The integrated heat spreaders put on CPUs at the factory are not the most thermally efficient material you could have on there, but what are you going to do—rip it off at the risk of killing your $500 ...