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Enthusiast dunks GPUs in transmission fluid, unusual immersion cooling experiment leads to performance gains
By Hassam Nasir published
Step aside, distilled water.

Crazed modder discovers RTX 5050 is actually faster than a 1080 Ti — ends up overclocking Nvidia's plucky budget card to 3300MHz, swipes top six scores in 3DMark Time Spy with 28% clock speed increase
By Mark Tyson published
Plans to 'overclock a GTX 1080 Ti hard enough to embarrass Nvidia’s new RTX 5050' didn't go quite as expected.

Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W
By Mark Tyson published
An Asus ROG Astral LC RTX 5090 has been shunt modded, resulting in its performance eclipsing the $10,000 RTX Pro 6000

AMD RX 9070 vBIOS flash offers up-to 20% performance boost — modders claim OC beats 9070 XT
By Hassam Nasir published
A member of the PCGH community flashed an RX 9070 XT vBIOS onto his RX 9070, reporting a 15-20% performance bump with boost clocks exceeding 3 GHz.

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

Undervolted RX 9070 XT beats RTX 5080 — RX 9070 and 9070 XT models with heavy coolers have massive OC headroom
By Sunny Grimm published
The AMD RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are well-equipped for heavy performance boosts through undervolting, per the reviews of several online overclockers.

Overclocker grabs CPU frequency world record with 14900KF at 9.12 GHz
By Hassam Nasir published
The i9-14900KF has been pushed past 9.12 GHz; topping the CPU frequency world-record chart.

Raspberry Pi 5 overclocked to 3.6 GHz by ScatterBencher
By Mark Tyson published
Expert overclocker Pieter-Jan Plaisier, AKA Scatterbencher, has again turned his focus to the humble Raspberry Pi, seeing what he can do with LN2.
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