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Nvidia RTX 50-series gaming laptops
Developer vibe codes a tool to let Nvidia RTX 50-series laptop owners crank up their power limits

By Zak Killian Published

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%.

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A product photo of a Thermal Grizzly delidded CPU.
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.

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A screenshot from a Trashbench video showing the Arctic WS360 successfully mounted on the operational GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card.
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

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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.

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A photograph of a graphics card being chilled by a portable camping freezer.
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.

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Intel Arc B580 liquid cooled using automotive coolant
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.

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GTX 1060 benchmarking world records
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.

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CPU being overclocked with liquid nitrogen
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.

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Delidding AMD chips, testing performance differences
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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Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D gets tested
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.

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