Intel strives for that perfect out-of-the-box experience. Intel has been making the headlines recently. If you don’t recall, it wasn’t long ago that the new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, felt that AMD was in ...

To paraphrase the great Gump, overclocking is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. Well, Intel is considering taking away the lottery by creating a high-end line of chips ...

In our news section a couple of weeks ago, I posed a simple question: What would you like to see from Intel’s enthusiast-class motherboard offerings? Or, what could Intel do to make its boards deserve ...

Intel's Core architecture has certainly stirred up the CPU industry. It has been nearly two years that the CPU giant had to take a back seat to AMD in the performance ring. While clock speeds did ...

Intel has announced the end of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP). An end-user who previously bought a PTPP from Intel was guaranteed a one-time replacement CPU if they fried their chip by ...

The days when you could overclock your Intel “K” or “KF” chip with impunity, while liquid nitrogen vapor wafted through the long tresses of your hair, are over. On Monday, Intel abruptly ended its ...

When we looked at Intel’s refreshed line of Core 2 processors last week, we came to the decision that Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 offered the best value for money out of all of Intel’s range of ...

While still quite expensive right now, there's no doubt of the performance potential Intel's Core i5-750 brings to a market where the extremely popular Core 2 Quad products once ruled. Once the price ...

Last week, the latest BIOS update for ASRock Z170 motherboards removed the Sky OC function, which was the company's term for the ability to overclock non-K Intel Skylake processors. Today, Intel has ...

The cheap overclocking party is over. An upcoming microcode update from Intel will close the door on a loophole that let users goose Skylake CPUs that weren’t meant to be overclocked. The company ...

If you want to squeeze every last ounce of processing power out of your new (or aging) computer, overclocking is a great—if slightly nerve-racking—option. Here are some simple guidelines for safely ...

For a lot of people, one of the best parts of getting a new CPU to upgrade or to build a new PC is to overclock the heck out of it. It’s a hobby that’s existed for about as long as computers, and why ...