Tom's Hardware: Overclocking

Discover more about Overclocking with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.

A product photo of a Thermal Grizzly delidded CPU.

Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.

A screenshot from a Trashbench video showing the Arctic WS360 successfully mounted on the operational GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card.

Trashbench decided to take an Arctic WS360 360mm server AIO cooler and strap it directly to a GeForce RTX 3080

Premium Overclocker Splave documents the trials and tribulations of overclocking the RTX 5090 Astral from Asus, resulting in a 3DMark world record.

A photograph of a graphics card being chilled by a portable camping freezer.

Using a shunt mod and a freezer, Trashbench achieved a 23% boost in clocks on the smallest Blackwell GPU.

Intel Arc B580 liquid cooled using automotive coolant

TrashBench manages to break the 3DMark Time Spy performance record using a water pump and a 50/50 glycol mix.

GTX 1060 benchmarking world records

TrashBench dominates 3D Mark Fire Strike GTX 1060 with i5-12600KF world records using a DIY cooler.

CPU being overclocked with liquid nitrogen

SkatterBencher has broken the GPU frequency world record, previously held by an RTX 4090, with Arrow Lake's built-in iGPU pushed to 4.25 GHz.

Delidding AMD chips, testing performance differences

Enthusiasts can expect up to 10% higher performance with a Ryzen 9950X3D using direct-die cooling. Or just run it at stock clocks but much cooler.

Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D gets tested

A PC overclocking enthusiast successfully delidded their AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D with a length of fishing line, a clothes iron, and nerves of steel.

Overclocking Arrow Lake

This overclocking champion explains what he did to get the most out of Intel’s current top chip, the Core Ultra 9 285K.

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