When AMD announced its Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors in August, it announced a peak clock rate of 5.7 GHz for the top-end, 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X model. That CPU is expected to boost to 5.85 GHz ...

AMD’s follow-up, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, is technically faster, but you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart when you’re ...

We're still a couple of weeks away from the AMD Zen 5 launch but that hasn't stopped AMD showing off the full extent of its new CPUs' capabilities, at least when it comes to overclocking. In a new AMD ...

Modern processor design typically tends to err these days towards overclocking only really being an ultimately beneficial/required pursuit of the enthusiast-level user. Even I can confirm that I’ve ...

Why it matters: Earlier this month, overclocking enthusiasts discovered it's possible to overclock Intel's non-K Alder Lake CPUs when paired with a high-end motherboard. For instance, with the right ...

What just happened? An overclocked AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5990X engineering sample in a custom liquid cooling loop managed to get over 100,000 points in the Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark. It got ...

AMD lifted the curtain on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in January, making the bold claim that it was the “world’s fastest gaming processor.” It’s a big statement for a chip that, under the hood, is the same as ...

Have you never overclocked your system ? Are you afraid of the BIOS? Would you like to get some extra free performance from ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from Newegg and other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. When it comes to gaming, the AMD Ryzen ...

Intel has been playing catch-up in recent years. While most of its CPU launches have been solid, the company has lost some of the spark people associate with the chip giant. Intel aims to change that ...

The Ryzen 7 9850X3D delivers the fastest gaming performance AMD has to offer, but its gains over the 9800X3D are narrower ...

But why, though?