In its original incarnation as a HEXUS.community forum thread, this beginners guide to overclocking Intel Core 2 Duo processors written by David Marshall (aka Clunk) has already had over a quarter of ...

Overclocking has been a staple of PC enthusiasts almost as long as computers have existed. It started with soldering of crystals and basic tiny jumps of, in some cases, fractions of a megahertz. Today ...

And now the stock values of the most popular Core 2 Duo CPUs: In the above table, we've left out the Xtreme models since, as we've said, this guide is aimed at ordinary folk not hard-core enthusiasts.

Supermicro's dedication to the enthusiast high-end desktop world has recently been solidified with the launch of their C9X299-PG300, which is not only designed to provide you with the latest ...

Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: Buy a slower, lower-cost CPU; juice up the clock ...

Overclocking the system processor is one of the easiest tweaks you can do to get more performance out of your PC. Motherboard manufacturers have steadily opened up more voltage and clock-speed options ...

While Asus advertises the current generation Eee PC as having either a 900MHz or 800MHz Celeron processor, depending on which model you buy, the truth is Asus underclocks these chips to run at 630MHz ...

Enthusiast level hardware is exciting, especially if you can make use of its full potential. When Intel released the monster 3.33GHz Core i7 975 processor, they laid claim to the highest performing ...

Half the CPU overclocking world records on HWBOT are now owned by AMD's latest Ryzen chip, the $2,000 Ryzen Threadripper 3970X. Given that it's a 32 core processor with 64 threads that maybe isn't a ...

Motherboard vendors have apparently been manipulating AMD's power management design to effectively overclock motherboards without end-user awareness. HWInfo is now designed to detect this behavior.