Does Saving Power Mean Hurting Performance? By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 16 December 08
The Hardware Behind Overdrive By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 18 November 08 Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000.
Overclocking Goes Int'l.: Overdrive In The USA By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos, Chris Angelini published 14 November 08
Advanced Overclocking Championship 2008 By Bestofmedia Team published 27 August 08 What happens when you put the top overclocking enthusiasts from 20 countries in the same room with the fastest hardware available? The LN2 flows freely and someone walks home with a $5,000 check.
Overclockers, Big Contest Coming Soon! By Barry Gerber published 14 May 08 Nominate contestants for the Tom’s Hardware overclocking contest to take place in Los Angeles on September 16th.
Extreme Graphics Card Tuning By Matthieu Lamelot published 24 April 08 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 you why and how to do it.
System Builder Marathon: Price/Performance By Thomas Soderstrom published 28 March 08 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, price, and value.
AMD CPU Efficiency Compared By Patrick Schmid published 30 January 08 We already compared performance per watt over four generations of Intel CPUs. Now we compare AMD's Sempron, Athlon and Phenom CPUs to see if efficiency has increased over time on the AMD side.
High-End DDR3 Memory on the Hook By Patrick Schmid published 11 January 08 Chaintech, Corsair, Crucial, Kingston and Supertalent battle at the DDR3-1600 and DDR3-1800 summits. Which premium memory product comes out on top?
Update: New Notebook CPU Charts By Patrick Schmid published 9 January 08 We added a new interactive charts page that allows you to compare most of Intel's mobile Core 2 Duo processors. The results can also be contrasted to those of our desktop CPU charts.
Most AM2 Motherboards Not Phenom Ready By Patrick Schmid published 26 December 07 AMD promised that Phenom could be operated in most socket AM2 motherboards. We tried running the new quad core on ten different products - and failed with most of them.
Can Water push Yorkfield to 5 GHz? By Thomas Soderstrom published 13 December 07 We've already seen how Intel's latest quad core CPU can easily push 4.0 GHz on air cooling, but how far will liquid cooling take it?
Overclock Your Graphics Card in 5 Minutes By Tino Kreiss published 23 November 07 While graphics drivers and third-party utilities allow you to overclock your graphics card's GPU and memory, pixel shader clock speeds can only be increased through the card's BIOS.