Intel warns about overclocking
Don’t do it with entry-level non-K Alder Lake-S CPUs
Enthusiastic overlockers have been pushing the limits of Chipzilla’s entry-level non-K Alder Lake-S CPUs and Intel is getting a bit worried about it.
G.SKILL helps Ryzen 5000 overclock well
Most used for breaking OC records
It turns out that G.SKILL is an almost sovereign leader in the AMD Vermeer Ryzen 5900 series overclocking scores at the HWbot.
MSI and Toppc break the memory record by hitting 5,608MHz
On MSI Z390I Gaming Edge AC and Core i-9900K
Just a few days after ADATA posted its own record, MSI and Toppc have broken it once again, hitting a rather incredible 5,608MHz.
ADATA hits 5,584MHz with XPG Spectrix D80 memory
New overclocking record
ADATA was proud to announce that its XPG Spectrix D80 RGB memory module has hit 5,584MHz while running on a 9th generation Core i9 CU and Z390 motherboard.
K|NGP|N pushed the RTX 2080 Ti to over 2.4GHz on LN2
Enough for 9,275 score in Time Spy Extreme
While most reviews have focused on the automated way to scan for the maximum stable overclock, Vince "K|NGP|N" Lucido was quite keen to pour some LN2 on the GTX 2080 Ti FE, pushing it to impressive 2,415MHZ for the GPU and 8,658MHz for the memory.
AMD Threadripper 2990WX overclocked to 5.955GHz
But only on one core
While extreme LN2 overclocking might not be the real representation on how good a CPU is, it is still nice to see how far these chips can be pushed, and Indonesian OC site, with a team led by IvanCupa, managed to push a single core of the 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper to an impressive 5.955GHz.
Core i7-8086K gets delidded and overclocked to 7,243MHz
By Roman "Der8auer" Hartung
We already had a hunch that Intel's 40th anniversary Core i7-8086K could be an impressive overclocker and Roman "Der8auer" Hartung has already delidded it and overclocked it to an impressive 7,243MHz under LN2.
EVGA officially releases EPOWER V board
Standalone VRM board
EVGA has now officially launched the fifth generation of its EPOWER board, a standalone VRM board that provides additional power for graphics cards and motherboards.
AMD Threadripper 1950X hits 5.2GHz on LN2
A sign of things to come
During its Capsaicin event at the Siggraph 2017 show, AMD brought a well-known overclocker Alva Jonathan, who managed to push the new Threadripper 1950X up to almost 5.2GHz on LN2.
DDR4 hits 4079MHz on AMD Ryzen platform
With a single G.Skill Trident Z 8GB module
AMD has been working on optimizing memory performance on its AM4 platform and it appears it has been doing a good job as, thanks to an overclocker from Australia, DDR4 managed to finally break the 4,000 limit with Gigabyte X370 motherboard, Ryzen 5 1400 CPU and G.Skill's 8GB Trident Z DDR4 memory module.