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G.Skill Unveils Extreme Low-Latency DDR5 Memory Kits

By Anton Shilov published 4 May 22

G.Skill announces low-latency DDR5-5600 CL28 kit.

Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 Overclocked to 10,004 MT/s

By Mark Tyson published 26 April 22

The deed was done on an Intel Core i9-12900KS system using an MSI MEG Z690 Unify-X motherboard. Interestingly, the CPU was cooled by LN2 but ran at just 425 MHz.

Core i9-12900KS World Record: How I Hit 7.8 GHz on 8 Cores

By Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch published 19 April 22

70 liters of liquid nitrogen works wonders.

Intel Core i9-12900KS Hits 7.45 GHz on LN2

By Mark Tyson published 6 April 22

Achieving 7.45 GHz meant limiting the CPU to 1C/2T in this instance. However, it has been behind some more meaningful world records like Cinebench 2003 and Geekbench 4 multi-core scores.

Intel's Alder Lake-HX CPU Spotted, Specifications Disclosed

By Anton Shilov published 3 March 22

Intel's Alder Lake-HX processor for high-performance laptops tested in UserBenchmark.

Hacksawing a Motherboard Helped Me Set a 12900K Overclocking Record

By Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch published 26 February 22

How I set a world overclocking record by cutting the socket out of a motherboard.

Intel Readies 'Muscle' Alder Lake-HX: 16-Core CPUs for Laptops

By Anton Shilov published 26 February 22

Intel plans 'muscle' Alder Lake-HX processors with 8 performance and 8 efficiency cores for gaming laptops.

Specs of Intel's Alder Lake-N Published: 8 Gracemont Cores, 32 Xe-LP EUs

By Anton Shilov published 10 February 22

Intel's Alder Lake-N: is the only Alder Lake CPU with no high-performance cores.

MSI Re-Enables AVX-512 Support on Alder Lake CPUs

By Anton Shilov published 1 February 22

MSI's latest firmware for Intel Z690 platforms re-enables AVX-512 support on 12th Gen Core processors.

Single AMD RX 6900 XT Beats Four GTX 1080 Tis to Take 3DMark Record

By Mark Tyson published 31 January 22

It has been a busy few weeks for overclocking world records, and these new GPU-centric achievements have been helped by use of the latest premium Intel Alder Lake platforms.

Kingpin Shares Images of His Custom AiO Cooled EVGA RTX 3090 Ti

By Mark Tyson published 27 January 22

This stylish upgrade is described by Kingpin as a "weapon," but the underlying GPU's firepower is yet to be independently assessed.

DDR5: Availability Improving, Prices Dropping

By Anton Shilov published 26 January 22

DDR5 is still quite expensive, but at least some memory kits are now available.

Intel's $64 Pentium Gold G7400T Alder Lake CPU Overclocked to 5.8 GHz

By Anton Shilov published 25 January 22

Intel's Pentium Gold G7400T 'Alder Lake' CPU overclocked by upping BCLK

Intel Non-K Alder Lake CPUs Topple Overclocking World Records

By Mark Tyson published 18 January 22

This rush for HWBot gold was predicted to happen after overclockers recently found out about how to BCLK overclock Intel's non-K Alder Lake chips.

Intel Alder Lake Celeron G6900 Easily Achieves 57% Overclock

By Mark Tyson published 17 January 22

In a continuation of his non-K BCLK overclocking investigations from the weekend, der8auer turns his attention to entry level ADL chips with impressive results.

Micron Confirms PMIC and VRM Shortages Are Hampering DDR5 Adoption

By Anton Shilov published 21 December 21

The demand for DDR5 memory modules significantly exceeds the current supply, but shortages in components other than DRAM are proving to be a limiting factor in production of more modules.