Famed extreme overclocker Der8auer took to his YouTube channel to voice his problem with Intel‘s new X299 boards. It stems primarily from keeping the MOSFETs on the VRM cool. Understandably, ...

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Motherboard manufacturers or Intel to blame? A well-known overclocker, der8auer, went out on a limb saying that current motherboards based on Intel's X299 chipset are not properly designed and due to ...

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Earlier this month, Intel launched its X299 chipset platform along with a bunch of processors including the monster 18-core Core i9-7980XE. However, as well as several new entries at the top its ...

Overclocking and tweaking then. Always invest in good hardware by the way (MOBO/PSU/Memory/Cooling), the cheaper motherboards often are not well tuned for enthusiast overclocking. Also get yourself a ...

Both Intel and its X299 motherboard maker partners have been taken to task by overclocking champ der8auer in a new YouTube video. In The X299 VRM Disaster der8auer argues that there are no current ...

But they’re very good boards, you won’t be sad But they’re very good boards, you won’t be sad The new Core X-series chips from Intel sound very powerful and good, but there’s one caveat: you’ll need a ...

The ROG Strix X299-E Gaming and Prime X299-Deluxe were both easy overclockers, getting to 4.6GHz with our CPU fairly easily, albeit with some slightly toasty temps, and 4.7GHz could maybe be on the ...

As you have been able to notice from my reviews, the X299 platform has massive challenges in overclocking (and other segments as well). Pro-overclocker Der8auer now states that the X299 Platform a ...