overclocking

I wasn't sure if I should drop this here, or in the overclocking subforum... oh well, here is as good a place as any. Anyway.... Did anyone else get an 8700k and wind up with an overclocking turd? Here I see everyone else getting 5ghz with moderate voltages (1.3 to 1.35v, sometimes lower!)...

The great folks at Corsair are sponsoring the third annual ln2 overclocking party in downtown Philly July 13th thru July 15th. Head on over to hwbot to sign up. There are going to be competitions, prizes, and workshops. Check out the announcement thread in our overclocking and cooling forum for...

This is mostly just a random rant.... Do you ever get a board and just feel like it hates you and you're going to hate it - almost right from the first time you power it up? I have had this Asrock Z370M Pro4 up and running for barely over a day, and I absolutely loathe it already. (For the...

IceMan Ryzen Threadripper CPU Water Block Review IceMan Cooler is not exactly a well known name in North America, but in December we had a few folks ask for a review of its Threadripper water block, so we reached out, and IceMan sent us its water block. Everything looked great till we tried to...

We were getting the HEATKILLER IV PRO water block fired up here on the test bench for a bout of AMD Threadripper abuse and I left a bunch of extra air in the lines so we could get a look at the flow pattern during startup.

ASUS ROG STRIX RX Vega 64 O8G GAMING Video Card We have our first custom retail AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 GPU video card on the test bench in the form of the ASUS ROG STRIX RX Vega 64 O8G GAMING video card. ASUS has created a robust ROG STRIX version of RX Vega 64 with a factory overclock and...

GIGABYTE AORUS GTX 1080 Ti Waterforce Xtreme Edition GIGABYTE has released a brand new All-In-One liquid cooled GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card with the AORUS Waterforce Xtreme Edition video card. This video card gives the Corsair Hydro GFX liquid cooled video card some competition, with a...

IceMan AMD Threadripper Water Block Breakdown AMD's Threadripper CPU is finding its way into many computer hardware enthusiasts' HEDT systems, and if you are looking to overclock it to the edge-of-the-envelope 4GHz, you are very possibly going to look to custom loop cooling. We just got in the...

ASUS ROG Rampage VI APEX Motherboard Review ASUS’ purpose built overclocking motherboard stands out as one of the most interesting and provocative motherboards the Republic of Gamers brand has probably ever seen. However, we’ve seen motherboards that opt to specialize in one area lose out in...

Koolance CPU-400A-S TR4 Threadripper CPU Water Block Review Koolance is a well known name in the mainstream water cooling market but over the years it has paid more attention to the enterprise market. Koolance is however dipping its toe into the Threadripper cooling market, when others aren't...

Swiftech Apogee SKF Threadripper Water Block Review Swiftech has long been known for it cooling prowess among computer enthusiasts for two decades. Not to be left behind, Swiftech is now starting production on a water block specifically designed for AMD's Threadripper. Not only is it designed...

Koolance Threadripper Water Block Breakdown Not to be left out of the rush to cool AMD's HEDT Threadripper CPU, Koolance joins the fray. We just got in our "CPU-400A-S" water block and we give you an upfront and personal look as we back the curtain to see what is inside of this soon-to-come cooler.

Phanteks Glacier G1080 Video Card Water Block Review Do you have the desire to run your high-end NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti at crazy sustained clock rates, with core temperatures just about 10 degrees C over ambient, and doing all that while in near silence? Phanteks has the answer for you with its...

Swiftech Apogee SKF TR4 Water Block Breakdown We have been waiting for "the next" AMD Threadripper water block to show up on the market, and it is finally here. The limited edition Apogee SKF-TR4 "Heirloom Series" is a great looking piece of hardware so of course we want to take it apart and...

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Phanteks G1080 GPU Water Block Assembly and Flow We recently had Phanteks send us its Glacier series water block for our Founders Edition GTX 1080 Ti. We take you through the full process of getting it installed. We check out the mating surfaces of the GPU, capacitors, and MOSFETs and show you...

GIGABYTE Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming Motherboard Review Intel’s launched yet another chipset, so for better or worse that means new motherboards for Intel’s mainstream market. We look at GIGABYTE’s Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming to see if it’s worthy of a Coffee Lake CPU. And now that you can actually...

Phanteks Glacier C399A Threadripper Waterblock Review The Phanteks Glacier C399A is a custom-designed water cooling block built specifically for AMD's new Threadripper processors. It has great looks, Frag-Harder Disco Lights, is built like a tank, and seems to be just what the doctor ordered...

We have our next Threadripper waterblock in for the testing! This one from Phanteks and is the model C399A, and it is a fine looking piece of watercooling equipment.

GIGABYTE X399 Aorus Gaming 7 TR4 Motherboard Review We review GIGABYTE’s X399 Aorus Gaming 7 and see how it stacks up in the world of HEDT motherboards. This motherboard is not priced all that high considering the amount of features it touts and certainly it is not priced high for the stability...

Ashley Allen from eTeknix posted a quick story yesterday that reports that the "GTX 1070 Ti Can't be Overclocked." This is what Ashley went on to say. Some of this is correct, and some of it is NOT correct. First and foremost, Ashley is incorrect in saying that the 1070 Ti can't be...

ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme Threadripper Mobo Review The ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme is poised to be the definitive choice for a high end Threadripper based build. It’s one of the most feature rich and complete solutions we’ve ever seen in our years of reviewing hardware. It's also one of the most...

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Enermax LIQMAX II 240 Liquid CPU AIO CPU Cooler Enermax is extremely proud of its Liqmax II 240 CPU AIO cooler. It is one of the few coolers you will find that it proudly displays its TDP rating right on the front of the box, which happens to be "350W+." With its Batwing fan blades, ceramic...

Overclocking the Intel Core i9-7900X X-series Processor - We have finally gotten some time to spend with the new Intel Core i9-7900X, which is a 10-core 20-thread CPU built to be used with the new X299 chipset and motherboard platform. Is this $1000 3.3GHz to 4.3GHz CPU good for overclocking...

AMD landed its new AGESA code v.1.0.0.6 back in May and since then we have seen many new UEFI released for motherboards to take advantage of this. As we have said since Ryzen's launch, we highly suggest you purchase RAM that is qualified on the specific AM4 motherboard you are purchasing, in...

ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition - Part 2 - It’s time to let the liquid flow and put the ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition to the ultimate test. We will connect a Koolance Liquid Cooling System and test GPU frequency, gaming performance, and of course push the video...

I've just bought Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000mhz 2x8gb RAM and I am planning to try to overclock it with D.O.C.P. The thing I am wondering is will failure (if it happens) cause any damage to my system or anything like that, btw I am using Ryzen 1600. My system doesn't use latest BIOS updates ( it...

So I just recently got a PNY XLR8 1080 Ti and the thing is amazing. Gaming at FPS I've never seen before. However there is always that voice in the back of my head to push it further. I started to overclock the card and immediately hit a power wall. The card runs comfortable at 70C at 2Ghz with...

Doing my regular round of interneting this morning looking for good news to pass along, cageymaru passed along this tidbit from Guru 3D that I found very interesting. Guru is passing along some of its findings out of Computex about the upcoming Intel Core i9 CPUs. First and foremost, it...

NZXT Kraken X52 All-In-One CPU Liquid Cooler Review - NZXT has been stepping up its cooling game this year, and the Kraken X52 All-In-One represents its "in between" liquid CPU cooler model for those cases with somewhat limited space for the radiator. The Kraken X52 comes with a healthy...

PowerColor Red Devil RX 580 Golden Sample Overclocking - We take the new PowerColor Red Devil RX 580 Golden Sample and overclock it as much as possible as we did not have time to do this in our original review. Find out our final overclocking results and how high the new AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU...

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 & 1400 CPU Review - AMD has been on a tear with its new Ryzen 7 CPUs over the past few weeks and now it is time for the Ryzen 5 processor family performance to be explored. We are giving away the AMD Reviewer's Kit with a 1600X and 1500X, instead we bought 1600 and 1400...

Two More Retail Ryzen 7 1700 Overclock Tested - Last week we headed out and purchased two retail Ryzen 7 1700 CPUs to see what 1700 processors purchased would attain in terms of overclocking. After that we went out and purchased two more retail 1700 CPUs to see what those would do...

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Retail CPU Overclocking X 2 - We have seen what the Ryzen 7 1700 sampled to us by AMD would do when it comes to overclocking, but what happens when you purchase a 1700 CPU? We went out and purchased one online and one locally and put these to test to find out their...

I'm running an overclocked gtx 1080 and am overclocked 6850k with two HDDs and two SSDs. Is a Rosewill Capstone 650watt 80+ gold sufficient? PCpartpicker says total system draw is 428 watts, but that is not including the overclocked (I guess?)

So I have overclocked my 6850k to 4.25ghz at 1.26V and I run my 1080 at max power power 2000mhz OC. I have a 650watt 80+ gold Rosewill Capstone. Is my PSU sufficient, or do I need to replace: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3y88m8 I have carried it over from a previous, non-broadwell-e build...

OK, maybe "Rowdy" Ryan Shrout did not say "shiznit" in his "Overclocking the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 - The Real Winner?" review, but I know he thought it. What is very fishy though is that PCPer came up with same exact conclusions that HardOCP did, mere hours after we published our 1700 vs 1700X...

http://mirror.ninja/5vixv8 Has anyone seen this? What do you guys think?

I was just wondering how people who OC their rigs deal with system stability. Every time i OC and something crashes, i just assume its the OC and roll it back. How can i relatively easily OC my CPU without constantly worrying that it is compromising system integrity? I want to get a 5.0 GHz...