Over the past two years living with an RTX 4070 Ti-powered gaming rig, I haven't made any upgrades at all. This year was supposed to be different as I had considered doubling my RAM and adding a new ...

Overclocking modern GPUs is easy and mostly safe. Expect a solid FPS boost of about 5–15%. Risk is low, but warranty may void. Control temps with fan curves, power limits, and do paste/pad swaps if ...

Hamlin has been in the tech field for over nine years. Since 2017, his work has appeared on MakeUseOf, Android Police, OSXDaily, Beebom, and more. He served as the Senior Editor at Valnet's MakeUseOf ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

MSI Afterburner is one of the best tools for overclocking your graphics card, and for monitoring its temperatures and fan speeds. A largely one-person project, MSI Afterburner is a superpopular ...

Every PC builder has likely come across the term overclocking. It’s a good way of eeking every last drop of performance out of your system, without needing to pay for an upgrade. If you’re not sure ...

When it comes to gaming on a PC, a lot of the culture is about maximizing the performance of your computer. PC gamers spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to optimize the perfect systems, and ...

This is fantastic. While auto-overclocking systems have existed for a while on motherboards, they are generally hit or miss on reliability and ability to get a good overclock. The tedium and ...

Overclocking computer systems is a fun way to extract some free performance, or at least see how far you can push the hardware before you run into practical limitations. The newly released Raspberry ...