The days when you could overclock your Intel “K” or “KF” chip with impunity, while liquid nitrogen vapor wafted through the long tresses of your hair, are over. On Monday, Intel abruptly ended its ...

You may have seen the story last week about Der8auer overclocking a Core i5-12400's six cores to 5.2 GHz, or even this morning's story about HiCookie taking a dual-core Pentium Gold chip to 5.8 GHz ...

Now, in fairness, Intel does have a point here. Although you can overclock their non-K processors (albeit, having knowledge of how this works is clearly to your advantage given the lack of any OEM ...

Intel has announced the end of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP). An end-user who previously bought a PTPP from Intel was guaranteed a one-time replacement CPU if they fried their chip by ...

Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve ...

Intel's in-house overclocking and tweaking utility called Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) has gained a new version with 7.8.0.21. This latest release brings Windows 11 22H2 support and more. Intel has ...

In brief: Some hardware enthusiasts were no doubt thrilled to learn earlier this month that non-K Alder Lake CPUs can be overclocked when paired with the right motherboard. Intel, it seems, isn't as ...

Intel's new special edition Core i9-14900KS processor is now out in the wild, but in the hands of legendary overclocker "Der8auer," it has been pushed to an all-core 6.0GHz using direct die cooling.

Intel has announced the end of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP). An end-user who previously bought a PTPP from Intel was guaranteed a one-time replacement CPU if they fried their chip by ...