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Team Group Intros Vulcan Series OC Memory

After launching the first DDR3 3000 MHz memory set last week, well-known enthusiast memory manufacturer Team Group has just announced the availability of the Team Vulcan series overclocking memory, on its official website. These modules come with DDR3 2400 CL10 specifications, DDR3 2133 C11, DDR3 1866 in CL9, C...

22 May 2012
10:41 GMT

World’s First DDR3 3GHz Memory Announced by Team Group

Computer memory expert manufacturer Team Group, a brand well-known to the enthusiasts, has just announced a new dual channel DDR3 memory kit that runs at a record-breaking 3GHz, on its official website. This is a kit consisting of two 2 GB modules. The company warns buyers that the memory is only certified to work i...

18 May 2012
05:39 GMT

Sapphire Launches Radeon HD 7770 Vapor-X Pre-overclocked Video Card

Well-known graphics card expert Sapphire is launching today the Sapphire HD 7770 Vapor-X OC Edition video card, on its official website. This is a fast pre-overclocked video adapter that comes with an efficient cooling system. The card is built around AMD’s “Cape Verde XT” graphics processing unit ...

17 May 2012
06:14 GMT

Inno3D Presents the iChill Herculez GTX 670 Video Card

Affordable video card manufacturer Inno3D has been working lately on quite a few high-end video card designs. The company’s new GeForce GTX 670 iChill HerculeZ graphics card is reportedly based on a reference GTX 680 PCB with the GTX 670 GPU stuck on it. The cards working frequencies are closer to GTX 680 vi...

14 May 2012
11:51 GMT

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X Complete Details Unveiled

Well-known motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte was reportedly scoured by nosy enthusiasts who managed to unveil the complete details about the company’s most powerful GTX 680 card. The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 WindForce 5X video card comes with a very special custom PCB (printed circuit board)...

14 May 2012
08:15 GMT

Gainward Launches the Cool Phantom GTX 670 Video Card

Well-known graphic card manufacturer Gainward has just announced the custom designed Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Phantom along with the reference design, on its official website. This is a sleek-looking powerful video card with a pretty silent cooling system. The card expectedly comes with factory pre-overclocked freque...

10 May 2012
11:08 GMT

ZOTAC’s GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition Is Official!

Popular video card manufacturer Zotac has just launched the GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition custom Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Kepler-based design, on its official website. It comes with a very powerful VRM and custom cooling system. Zotac’s custom video cards have always impressed the PC enthusiast gamers, but the co...

10 May 2012
10:23 GMT

Intel’s i7-3770K CPU Overclocked to 7 GHz with MSI’s Z77 Motherboard

MSI has just announced on its official website that the MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard based on the Intel Z77 chipset has been successfully overclocked at 7 GHz using an Intel Core i7-3770K CPU. The motherboard is build using very high quality components and was certified to conform to the MIL-STD-810G standard via third-...

30 April 2012
10:05 GMT

EVGA Shows the EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper

High-quality video card and mainboard manufacturer EVGA announced today the availability of the EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Hydro Copper on its official website. The card offers a preinstalled Hydro Copper Waterblock that reduces the GPU operating temperature by as much as 50%. The performance of a water cooler is highly i...

2 April 2012
03:01 GMT

Gigabyte’s Factory Overclocked Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850 Now Official

A little more than a week after AMD officially introduced its Radeon HD 7800 series GPUs, Gigabyte unveiled two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850 designs that come factory overclocked in order to boost their gaming performance. The more powerful of the two solutions announced today is dubbed...

15 March 2012
20:01 GMT

Gigabyte Debuts 1.1GHz Overclocked Radeon HD 7770 Graphics Card

Over the years, Gigabyte has accustomed us with its non-reference graphics cards and the company's recent Radeon HD 7770 based solution is no exception to this rule, as it comes with a beefier cooling solution and a slightly overclocked GPU. The card is officially named the GV-R777OC-1GD and Gigabyte states tha...

15 February 2012
10:26 GMT

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 OC Edition Graphics Card Now Official

Sapphire, one of AMD’s closest add-in board partners, has just announced the release of two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7950 design, including one factory overclocked model with a 900MHz GPU clock. Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by Sapphire, the standard clocked versi...

31 January 2012
06:11 GMT

EVGA Release E-LEET Overclocking Utility Version 1.09.9

EVGA E-LEET is one of the most powerful and at the same time convenient overclocking tool one could use to raise the performance of an EVGA motherboard. With E-LEET, users can now set their motherboards' QPI and system voltages so they obtain the absolute best performance from their hardware. The new E-LEET v...

20 December 2011
07:23 GMT

Gigabyte Smart6 Utility B11.1124.1 Is Available for Download

Gigabyte's Smart6 management utility reaches version B11.1124.1, and is now available for free download. If you're the owner of a Gigabyte motherboard loaded with Intel's X79 chipset and want to get in total control over it, you might just want to try the Smart6 utility.This software suite comprises 6&...

12 December 2011
09:40 GMT

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Overclocked to 1.4GHz

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 8.9 Android-based tablet PC can easily prove a great device on its own, and an even better one when the speed of its application process has been pushed up to 1.4GHz. According to a member of the XDA-Developers community, the CPU inside the tablet PC can be easily pushed up to 1.2GHz and ...

15 November 2011
14:51 GMT

Intel's Core i7 2700K Overclocked to 5.2GHz in Origin's Custom Desktops

Origin PC announced earlier today that the company has made available Intel's newly launched Core i7-2700K processor in its entire line of custom desktops, while also offering its clients the possibility of opting for a factory overclock up to 5.2GHz. The Core i7-2700K is Intel's fastest consumer Sandy Bri...

25 October 2011
03:42 GMT

HTC's EVO 3D and Sensation Get Overclocked to 1.8GHz

HTC's latest flagship mobile phones the EVO 3D and the Sensation, have just been overclocked to far more than the stock speed of their processors, being brought up to 1.8GHz. Both handsets come to the market with dual core application processors clocked in at 1.2GHz, which already boast impressive performance...

8 July 2011
16:41 GMT

Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Overclocked to 1.5GHz

Samsung Galaxy S II, the Android-based mobile phone that arrived on shelves only a few days ago with Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system on board, has just got its dual-core application processor overclocked to 1.5GHz.The dual-core Exynos 4210 Hummingbird CPU was already clocked at 1.2GHz, and the...

12 May 2011
15:11 GMT

PowerColor's PCS+ HD6770 Vortex II Edition Graphics Card Comes Factory Overclocked

PowerColor has just announced the introduction of a new graphics card built on the Radeon HD 6770 design which uses the company's second generation Vortex custom cooling system in order to deliver up to 25% better operating temperatures when compared to reference designs.The new graphics card, which is dubbed th...

12 May 2011
06:00 GMT

HTC ThunderBolt Overclocked to 2GHz

HTC ThunderBolt, the very first 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) smartphone that mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless has made available for purchase on its airwaves, has been overclocked to over 2GHz.Apparently, some enthusiasts managed to bring the speed of this mobile phone's processor up to 2.01GHz, more than ...

5 April 2011
15:11 GMT

Asus Intros 1015MHz Clocked Nvidia GTX 550 Ti Graphics Card

Asus is well known for its heavily customized graphics cards, and the company's latest solutions based on Nvidia's GTX 550 Ti are no exception to this rule as the trio features a redesigned PCB and cooling assembly that allowed the company to clock its fastest graphics card at no less than 1015MHz. Until...

16 March 2011
03:21 GMT

Motorola XOOM's CPU Gets Overclocked to 1.5 GHz

Motorola XOOM, the first tablet PC to arrive on the market with Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system on board, has just got its processor overclocked to up to 1.5 GHz. The Android device was made available for purchase in the United States on February 24th on the airwaves of wireless carrier Veriz...

28 February 2011
02:14 GMT

MSI Unleashes the R6870 Hawk Graphics Card

MSI's Hawk line of graphics cards has managed to leave a good impression to overclockers everywhere, so many enthusiasts will rejoice when hearing that the company has just released the R6870 Hawk which is based on the Radeon HD 6870 GPU and features the same unique design and cooling solution that made the seri...

8 February 2011
08:24 GMT

Yeston Intros Factory Overclocked GTX 560 Ti Graphics Card

Following Nvidia's launch of the GTX 560 Ti graphics card, all of the company's board partners have announced their solutions based on the GF114 GPU, Yeston also introducing its factory overclocked graphics card designed to use Nvidia's latest core.Like most of the GF114 solutions released until now, Y...

26 January 2011
10:58 GMT

Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti SOC Becomes Official, Features 1GHz GPU Overclock

Gigabyte's SOC line of graphic cards has always managed to impress us with its great factory overclocks, but the company has surely managed to outdone itself when it designed the GTX 560 Ti SOC as this is the first GPU to ship with a 1GHz core clock. Just like all the other SOC cards that were released before...

26 January 2011
02:57 GMT

Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti SOC to Feature 1000MHz Core Clock

Gigabyte's SOC line of graphics cards has always managed to impress enthusiasts with its high factory overclocks and improved designs, and it seems like the company is set to do this yet again with the GTX 560, as recent leaks suggests the SOC version of this GPU will have its core clocked at an impressive 1000M...

25 January 2011
10:21 GMT

MSI Launches N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II Series of Factory Overclocked Graphics Cards

While there are still a few hours left until Nvidia makes official the GTX 560, MSI has already sent out an announcement detailing its GF114 product line, the Taiwanese manufacturer releasing no less than three solutions based on Nvidia's latest graphics core. All these feature MSI's custom Twin Frozr II...

25 January 2011
07:13 GMT

Asus GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II Top Detailed and Overclocked Ahead of Launch

We're just a few hours away from Nvidia's official release of the GTX 560 Ti GPU, but reports detailing various solutions based on that core have already started appearing as Asus' GTX560 Ti DirectCU II Top just got pixelized together with a screenshot that provides a glimpse into its overclocking pote...

25 January 2011
04:35 GMT

SGI Overclocks Its Rackable Half-Depth 4U Servers

Used primarily by computer enthusiasts as a way of improving their PC's performance without having to buy higher priced parts, overclocking has steadily but surely made its way into the mainstream, SGI just announcing they have overclocked their rackable half-depth server line in order to deliver improved perfor...

17 December 2010
06:42 GMT

Galaxy Clocks the GeForce GTS 450 At 1000MHz

As we have already learned from our previous Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 review, the GF106 graphics core is a beast when it comes down to overclocking, Galaxy pointing this out once again with its latest 1000MHz clocked GTS 450 Hall of Fame custom video card.In order to provide us with this insanely clocked core speed, Ga...

28 October 2010
05:59 GMT

New CPU Overclocking Record Set, 8.20GHz

Reaching an 8.20GHz frequency is not an easy feat, but the overclockers from XtremeLabs.org managed to do it with an Intel Celeron D 347 central processing unit (CPU). Of course, as it is the case with most, if not all, serious attempts at breaking CPU overclocking records, the new height was reached thanks to a stur...

26 January 2010
04:39 GMT

MSI Preps New Radeon HD 5770 with Over Voltage

There have been quite a few releases of tweaked, redesigned or custom-cooled Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards, with Sapphire, PowerColor and ASUS each presenting their own respective products over the past week and a half. Still, while those models each had a slightly higher factory clock or a special heatsink, they wer...

16 December 2009
06:20 GMT

Cryo-Z Phase Change Cooler from OCZ Achieves Sub-Zero Temperatures

Fort those enthusiasts who already have a good CPU and enough memory to push its clock over the top, OCZ introduces the final element needed for any overclocked configuration, a cooling solution capable of keeping any processors at low temperatures, the Cryo-Z. This cooler is a complex machine that is capable of push...

9 December 2009
06:00 GMT

MSI Video Card Sets Record for Highest 3D Mark Vantage Score

The world record for the highest graphics processing unit clock/memory speed was broken by a renowned overclocker using a system configuration that employed the MSI R5870-PM2D1G for graphics. Calling himself “Deanzo,” the overclocker built a machinery that used a significant quantity of LN2 in order to ke...

4 December 2009
09:41 GMT

Republic of Gamers Motherboard Overclockable via Bluetooth

Not so many decades ago, overclocking was a tedious and dangerous procedure that involved physical modifications to the motherboard, whether it meant changing the placement of jumpers that regulated the voltage or wattage received by the processor, to pumping surplus power into the CPU via the BIOS. Such overclocking...

26 November 2009
10:02 GMT

New Record For CPU Speed: AMD Phenom II Surpasses 7GHz

Regardless of how much larger Intel's market share is compared with AMD’s, the latter is still the one boasting the highest possible processing power attained so far. Now on video, the capabilities of Advanced Micro Devices CPUs are plain for all to see, showing off clock speeds of no less than a little ov...

14 November 2009
05:03 GMT

AMD Finally Rolls Out the 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 BE

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices, the world's second largest vendor of computer processors, has announced today the launch of its latest desktop computer processor, part of the company's growing line of Phenom II CPUs. The highly anticipated Phenom II X4 965 is part of the chip maker'...

13 August 2009
02:51 GMT

Intel's Core i7 Extreme Goes Easily to 4.2GHz

It seems that the speed of any Core i7 Extreme processor can be boosted to 4.2GHz quite easily; at least, that is what recent news on the web says. The chips have the multiplier unlocked, which allows overclockers to raise the speed of the core by pulling the multiplier up. This is good news, yet not something unexpe...

13 October 2008
04:07 GMT

MSI Takes GTX280 to 700MHz

If you are an NVIDIA fan and you are wondering which graphics card manufacturer has the best GTX280-based solution, you should know you can choose from quite a few alternatives. One of them includes MSI's most recent offer, and uses NVIDIA's flagship graphics processor in a factory-oveclocked GeForce graphi...

8 August 2008
08:17 GMT

MSI Overclocks Radeon HD 4870

Micro Star International is among the first graphics card manufacturers to release a factory overclocked version of AMD's latest flagship card, the Radeon HD 4870. This means that users will benefit from much more Radeon power, straight out of the box. The card will probably end up by becoming an option for the ...

7 July 2008
08:55 GMT

Intel Says Yes to Overclocking

One of the main features of the recently released Intel 4 series chip set is that it will allow its users to better overclock their systems. Apparently, Intel will now give its users the necessary tools that will enable them to improve their system's overall performance, by tweaking and overclocking the central ...

5 June 2008
07:14 GMT

Intel Shows the Power of Nehalem

Intel's upcoming and much anticipated Nehalem processor has been creating quite a buzz this year and, naturally, people were actually expecting to get a sneak preview of the soon-to-come CPU these days. According to recent reports, a couple of journalists have had the amazing opportunity of seeing what the Nehel...

5 June 2008
04:01 GMT

MSI Board Supports 5GHz Overclocked CPU

This year's Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan is just the place to be for all of you overclocking enthusiasts. That is, only if we're to trust the statements of the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, MSI, according to which it's prepping an impressive overclocking show. As indicated by a recent pre...

4 June 2008
08:16 GMT

BFG Launches New NVIDIA Cards

If you've recently been making plans to update your desktop gaming rig with a new graphics card, then you might want to check out BFG's latest offer. The NVIDIA-based graphics cards manufacturer has announced yesterday two new products, which are designed to bring support to mid-range consumers. The two car...

4 June 2008
06:31 GMT

SPARKLE Rolls out New Gaming Graphic Cards

Another graphic card manufacturer has decided to roll out a product designed for gaming enthusiasts. This time we are talking about SPARKLE, which has recently released a NVIDIA-based graphic card as part of its high-end Calibre lineup. With this card, SPARKLE has decided to use NVIDIA's GeForce 9600 GPU and des...

3 June 2008
02:43 GMT

SPARKLE Intros Super Clock Technology for GeForce 8 Series

SPARKLE Computer announced the launch of the Super Clock Technology, SCT for short, that allows users to receive an instant bonus of 3D performance from their Nvidia powered GeForce 8 series of graphics cards that now come out of the box with a higher shader processing units clock in order to deliver more power in ...

1 October 2007
10:49 GMT

Asus EN8600GT, 40% More Overclocking Potential

Asus just announced yet another graphics card based on a Nvidia graphics processing units that is aimed at overclockers, the EN8600GT TOP/HTDP/256M, that continues the line of products initiated with the launch of the OC Gear card and accessories. The new Asus graphics card comes from the factory with faster stream p...

27 September 2007
03:27 GMT

Transcend Axes The DDR2

Transcend announced the launch of a new line of DDR2 memory kits which are part of the company's high performance line of products and which are aimed at gamers and other personal computer enthusiasts. Just like all previous iterations of this memory line of products, the DDR2-1066 aXeRam Overclocking Memory Dua...

21 September 2007
12:35 GMT

OCZ Brings Out The Big Guns: 1800MHz DDR3 Kits

Only two days after it released its two DDR3 memory kits running at an effective frequency of 1600MHz, OCZ sets the pace for the gamer and computer enthusiast memory kits as it launched the 1800MHz version today. The memory modules with an effective frequency of 1800MHz are jumping right over JEDEC's standard an...

19 July 2007
04:53 GMT

Faster! Better! The OCZ DDR3 Memory Kits, Of Course.

When you hear that OCZ has a new line of products you automatically think about blazing fast memory and sometimes about nicely built power sources, too. However, almost always it is about a new memory kit, just like now. Just when everybody thought that Corsair and SuperTalent finally went ahead and OCZ starts to lag...

18 July 2007
03:16 GMT


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