Genres are pretty well established, and you can have an excellent time playing PC titles with something as affordable as a Steam Deck. Yet the quest for maximizing performance continues, and a weapon ...

MSI electrified CES 2026 with the debut of the long-awaited MEG X870E Unify-X Max motherboard—set to outshine the best ...

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 ...

MSI has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z at CES 2026, marking the return of its LIGHTNING graphics ...

The frequency at which a processor processes information is called its clock. Increasing the timing of this clock, referred to as "overclocking," enables your processor to function faster. You handle ...

It's worth noting outright that the official product pages for the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7000X3D with 3D V-Cache have removed the note about overclocking. But that didn't stop several people from ...

The MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z has been unveiled at CES 2026, with MSI engineering the most powerful PC gaming GPU ...

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interest in learning how to over clock the tiny Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W mini PC up to speeds of 1.2GHz and higher may be interested in a new tutorial published to the ...

I am not an overclocker, but the way that XMP is described makes it sound like memory is capable of far faster speeds than they are rated at, and XMP is an "unofficial standard" that takes off the ...

A little over seven years ago, I wrote a story called "Physics, Ivy Bridge, and the Slow Death of Overclocking." The argument it made, in essence, was that the realities of process node scaling were ...

Outside of Engadget's consumer-tech space, there are dozens of sites and YouTube channels that make a living covering PC hardware in extreme depth, looking at every aspect of a new product, tearing it ...