Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...

If you want to extract maximum performance from your components, overclocking is probably the first thing that comes to mind. In theory, you can increase the clock speeds of most modern CPUs, graphics ...

Picking the best CPU could be as simple as matching a budget to a benchmark chart. But these days the landscape feels more like a negotiation. AMD and Intel both have solid chips at nearly every price ...

Fans of small form factor PCs are a dedicated bunch, with the best Mini-ITX motherboards being the absolute superstars of each build. And it's easy to understand why. A mini PC just has an innate ...

Because of the way we interact with these features, it's easy to think of Intel XMP and AMD EXPO as binary, 'yes or no' features, but both standards have actually gone through a few revisions. Right ...

AMD has announced the Ryzen 7 9850X3D at CES 2026, expanding its lineup of gaming-focused processors. The new chip is a ...

TL;DR: AMD's future Zen CPU roadmap reveals Zen 6 ("Medusa"), Zen 7 ("Prometheus") on AM5 socket with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5, followed by Zen 8 ("Penelope") and Zen 9 ("Nemesis") launching around ...

Gaming myths persist across forums, YouTube tutorials, and social media posts, often misleading players into chasing tweaks that deliver little to no improvement. FPS myths about RAM speed, VSync ...