Ever since Sandy Bridge came to market Intel’s processors had been limited in overclocking terms, for overclockers the only way to achieve an overclock was via multiplier changes and a default base ...

When reports of substantial overclocks being achieved on non-K edition Intel CPUs surfaced a few weeks ago, my initial thoughts didn't immediately leap to motherboard manufacturers having found a very ...

Intel's move to restrict overclocking to its enthusiast-grade K-series processors looks to be coming to an end, with motherboard makers issuing BIOS updates that enable base-clock overclocking on all ...

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As you're no doubt aware, for some considerable time now – since Sandy Bridge processors were introduced by Intel – overclocking hasn't been possible (or rather, any real overclocking hasn't) and CPUs ...

Skylake processors that were discovered to be readily overclockable are having their speeds locked back down, with Intel shipping a new microcode update for the chips that closes a loophole introduced ...

Another motherboard maker just joined the overclocking revolution for cheaper, non-K series Intel Skylake chips, following in the footsteps of ASRock, Biostar, and others. EVGA published a BIOS update ...

Non-K processors aren't designed with overclocking in mind, but an enthusiast has managed to squeeze more performance out of Intel's Alder Lake Core i5-12490F. How much performance? Well, according to ...