Nominate contestants for the Tom’s Hardware overclocking contest to take place in Los Angeles on September 16th.Read more

Overclocking is more popular than ever, but the fun is not just limited to boosting your CPU's speed - your GPU can be overclocked too. We tell ... Read more

Yesterday we chose our components, today we’ll test them. Does our $500 gamer make the grade?Read more

How much performance can $500 buy? We set out to find the answer. Today we show you our choice of components. Tomorrow we present test results.Read more

We've built and tested our low-, mid- and higher-cost systems at standard and overclocked speeds. Now we're ready to compare their performance, ... Read more

Over the week we build and test low-, mid- and higher-cost systems at standard and overclocked rates. Then we compare them and look at ... Read more

In addition to an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU, Asus Striker II Formula motherboard, and dual Gigabyte GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards, our ... Read more

We look at the 45 nm Core 2 Duo E8000's overclocking potential. We also focus on power consumption, simulating real-world applications with ... Read more

We compare the performance of the dual-socket Skulltrail system to that of Core 2 Extreme QX9770 and QX9650 CPUs. All three are Penryns and share ... Read more

How overclockable is the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 and quad channel D5400XS motherboard combination? And what about power consumption?Read more

AMD fans who want to overclock their processors can rejoice at news that the CPU maker is offering a Black Edition of its current fastest ... Read more

A to-the-point, heavily illustrated review of recent news from our hardware expert Thomas Soderstrom. Motherboards, memory, coolers, cases, power ... Read more

In our earlier DDR2 motherboard comparison, we found that features, not raw performance, mark the big improvements of Intel's X38 Express chipset ... Read more

The graphics card market for the workstation segment used to move at its own, more leisurely pace - until nowRead more

When overclocking, are there significant advantages to using quad-core instead of dual-core CPUs? We do extensive testing using Intel's E6750 and ... Read more

Exciting news about AMD's new unlocked X2 5000+ Black Edition. Complete with test results and comparisonsRead more

After a grueling four days of benchmarking and tweaking, it's time to see how our three systems compare in baseline performance, overclocked ... Read more

Armed with our low, mid, and high end systems, we do some overclocking and see how each scales when pushed to the limit...Read more

Staying within budget is easy when the limit is $4,000, but can our $3500+ system really prove its worth?Read more

We build the highest-performance PC that $1,000 can buy, and prepare it to fight some upcoming System Builder Marathon competitors.Read more

Want plenty of power for very little money? Here's a CPU with an overclocking margin of 80% that can beat a Core 2 Duo E6750 for a fraction of ... Read more

Intel's Core 2 series 6x50 takes advantage of a higher bus speed with potentially better throughput, but has lower CPU clock multipliers that ... Read more