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You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403
By Zak Killian Published
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.

Ambitious modder bolts a 360mm server AIO onto an RTX 3080, slashes VRAM temps in half
By Zak Killian Published
Trashbench decided to take an Arctic WS360 360mm server AIO cooler and strap it directly to a GeForce RTX 3080

Splave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world record
By Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch Published
Premium Overclocker Splave documents the trials and tribulations of overclocking the RTX 5090 Astral from Asus, resulting in a 3DMark world record.

Overclocker uses camping freezer to push RTX 5050 to nearly 3.5 GHz
By Zak Killian Published
Using a shunt mod and a freezer, Trashbench achieved a 23% boost in clocks on the smallest Blackwell GPU.

GPU overclocker uses chilled car antifreeze and pond pump to push Intel card to sub-zero temps, sets world record
By Jowi Morales Published
TrashBench manages to break the 3DMark Time Spy performance record using a water pump and a 50/50 glycol mix.

Crazed modder straps DIY copper waterpipes to GTX 1060, sets world overclocking records in 12600KF category
By Mark Tyson Published
TrashBench dominates 3D Mark Fire Strike GTX 1060 with i5-12600KF world records using a DIY cooler.

GPU frequency overclocking world record broken using integrated Intel graphics
By Hassam Nasir Published
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.

Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler
By Mark Tyson Published
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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