You don’t need the latest and greatest PC hardware to have fun or even break overclocking world records, as Luumi shows with an ancient Haswell system.
A developer has created a fully vibe-coded tool that seems to work to allow some GeForce RTX 50-series laptops to crank their power limits by as much as 28%.
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.
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.
Using a shunt mod and a freezer, Trashbench achieved a 23% boost in clocks on the smallest Blackwell GPU.
TrashBench manages to break the 3DMark Time Spy performance record using a water pump and a 50/50 glycol mix.
TrashBench dominates 3D Mark Fire Strike GTX 1060 with i5-12600KF world records using a DIY cooler.
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.
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.
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