Intel has been honing up its software chops over the past year, with the most visible results being on the GPU side. However, Intel hasn't forgotten about utilities for its processors, as witnessed by ...

To get more performance from your aging computer or push a new computer to its limit, give overclocking a shot. Overclocking a CPU can help you get more performance from your system without spending ...

Windows: Intel made it a lot easier to overclock your CPU—pushing it past its default clock speeds to make it even faster, at the risk of potentially frying your chip. There’s just one big caveat: You ...

Don’t know what overclocking is or how to overclock your CPU? Don’t worry, we’re about to walk you through it. If you’re thinking of upgrading your CPU to optimize your gameplay, why not take a look ...

You can overclock your PC's CPU by increasing the CPU multiplier and voltage in the BIOS or UEFI menu. Before you overclock your CPU, make sure that your CPU is powerful enough, and isn't already ...

In September, AMD added support for simple CPU overclocking to its graphics drivers. If you had a Ryzen 5000-series CPU and wanted to benefit from the extra performance, this auto-overclocking ...

More details have emerged about how AMD's forthcoming six-core desktop CPUs, the Phenom II X6 lineup (a.k.a. Thuban), plan to handle all that processing power when most applications still can't make ...

I've got a rig that's a few months old. It's got a i7-4770K w/Corsair H60 and a ASRock Z87E-ITX motherboard. For some reason, I can't overclock past 4.2GHz. I've toggled all the motherboard settings ...

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 ...