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MSI Debuts Overclocked GeForce GT240 Cards

MSI, a leading vendor of computer components and systems, has announced today the debut of its new GeForce graphics cards, with the introduction of the new GeForce N250GT series. Equipped with the latest NVIDIA graphics processing unit and aimed at the mainstream and entry-level user, the new card will be available ...

17 November 2009
06:36 GMT

MSI P55 Flagship Motherboard Used to Push Intel's Core i7 860 to 5.39GHz

In an attempt to draw a bit more attention to its latest line of P55-based motherboards, MSI has just announced that one of its high-end motherboards has been used in an world record-breaking overclocking set-up, which saw Intel's Core i7 860 processor taken all the way up to 5.39GHz, from its stock frequency of...

29 September 2009
09:48 GMT

iBUYPOWER Gets on the Lynnfield Bandwagon with the Paladin E-Series Systems

As it was to be expected, the launch of Intel's latest mainstream desktop platform has led to the release of a series of new computer systems that have been specifically designed to incorporate the latest technology and features that have been made available by the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker. Follo...

10 September 2009
03:40 GMT

A-Data Unveils XPG Plus Series DDR3-2200+ Memory Kits

There's a certain segment of computer users who are always looking for ways to boost the performance of their systems, looking for new components and the latest technology releases. This is the case with overclocking and computer enthusiasts who are known for going the extra mile in their attempt to break new be...

28 July 2009
05:08 GMT

MSI N260GTX Lighting Goes to Extreme 1.1GHz Clock Speeds

Taiwanese motherboard and graphics card maker MSI has just announced that one of its high-end graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 260-based N260GTX Lighting, has been pushed to an incredible clock speed of 1.1GHz. This only proves that MSI's commitment in trying to provide its customers with the best-in-class compon...

16 July 2009
03:07 GMT

AMD Phenom II 955 BE Hits 7.0GHz

Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices wants to show the world that its processors are capable of breaking the world records when it comes to their overclocking capabilities. As such, the company sponsored an overclocking event in Finland, where its AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition processor was pushed up to the impre...

7 July 2009
04:28 GMT

AMD PII TWKR Black Edition Processors Revealed, Benchmarked and Praised

Following yesterday's reports regarding the much-hyped Phenom II TWKR Black Edition processor from Advanced Micro Devices, it now appears that the CPU has finally managed to break cover and provide overclocking enthusiasts with some details as to what to expect. As it was suggested in previous reports that surfa...

1 July 2009
04:08 GMT

AMD PII Black Edition TWKR CPU Could Be Launched Tomorrow

There has been a surge of details recently surfacing the Internet about an upcoming special-edition processor that could be launched by the world's second largest CPU vendor, Advanced Micro Devices. Part of the chip maker's line of Phenom II processors, the new CPU has been identified as the Phenom II Black...

30 June 2009
08:46 GMT

AMD TWKR CPU to Be Unveiled After June 30

Earlier this month, the CEO of Maingear, Wallace Santos, made an entry into his personal blog, stating that his company received a sample of an upcoming high-end AMD processor, suggestively dubbed Phenom II TWKR Black Edition. There were only a few details on the said processor, with Maingear's CEO promising to ...

23 June 2009
09:54 GMT

AMD Set on Unveiling New PII TWKR Black Edition CPU

Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices has been placing a significant amount of its marketing skills on the overclocking capabilities of its latest Phenom II processors, providing enthusiasts with a choice for a high-end desktop PC that can be tweaked to extreme levels, for increased performance and high ...

12 June 2009
05:43 GMT

A-DATA to Showcase XPG DRAM Modules at Computex 2009

One of the main reasons why you should be at this year's Computex 2009 show in Taiwan is that you'll be given the opportunity to set your eyes on some of the latest products in the computer industry. Such is the case with A-DATA, a company that specializes in providing users with a number of memory products...

26 May 2009
06:40 GMT

Intel Reportedly Plans to Take AMD's Overclocking Crown

It would appear that AMD still has what it takes to push Intel to develop and provide its fans with better and faster computer CPUs. At least that is the case with a select number of computer enthusiasts who will soon see an interesting battle between the world's largest chip makers. According to a recent report...

22 May 2009
03:37 GMT

ASUS Officially Unveils the ROG OC Station

After having made a surprise appearance on the Internet a week ago, ASUS' new ROG OC Station has just been officially launched by the Taiwanese manufacturer. Designed as a hardware controller that will help computer enthusiasts further tweak the specifications of their desktop computer system, the new OC Station...

21 May 2009
02:57 GMT

ASUS Preps OC Station Overclocking Controller

Taiwanese motherboard maker ASUS is expected to expand its line of RoG (Republic of Gamers) products with an upcoming unveiling of the RoG OC Station, a controller that is designed to enable computer enthusiasts to easily boost the performance of their high-end desktop rigs with some minor tweaks to the system voltag...

14 May 2009
11:15 GMT

1GHz Radeon HD 4890 Graphics Cards On Their Way

Even before AMD officially announced the introduction of its latest graphics processing unit, the RV790-based Radeon HD 4890 was expected to be a great overclocker, providing computer and gaming enthusiasts with the means to increase their computer visual performance by tweaking the GPU. When released, AMD also trump...

8 May 2009
09:12 GMT

MAINGEAR Upgrades Its F131 Gaming PC

Maingear has recently announced that its award-wining and successful F131 gaming PC will be available again for gamers and computer enthusiasts who want to take advantage of the latest in hardware performance. The system, which will be available for purchase through the company's website, will deliver support fo...

7 May 2009
04:07 GMT

Cooler Intros Mid-Tower HAF 922 Chassis

When building a high-performance desktop PC, computer enthusiasts have to consider the critical factor of PC cooling, which is of high importance when performance is in question. Cooler Master has been recognized as one of the leading vendors of computer peripherals and accessories, providing its customers with a cho...

29 April 2009
03:08 GMT

MSI Slaps 2GB of Memory on New GTX 285 Graphics Card

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has recently updated its line of high-end graphics cards with the introduction of a custom GeForce GTX 285 card, providing users with as much as 2GB of GDDR3 RAM memory and a custom dual-slot cooling solution. The new card builds on the performances achieved by NVIDIA's fastest single-...

24 April 2009
08:53 GMT

PowerColor Announces the 'Fastest HD4890'

Earlier this month, Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices announced its latest addition to the successful line of HD 4000-series GPUs, with the introduction of the highly anticipated RV790-based Radeon HD 4890 graphics card. Designed to boost the performance of the company's previous flagship model,...

24 April 2009
07:00 GMT

Radeon HD 4890 (RV790) Overclocked to 1.2GHz

One of the main features of AMD's latest RV790-based Radeon HD 4890 graphics card is that it can provide users with impressive overclocking room. This is one fact that has been taken into consideration by many overclocking enthusiasts out there, who have already gotten their hands on the new card and put it thro...

16 April 2009
06:12 GMT

DFI to Launch Affordable P45 Board for Overclocking Enthusiasts

Although Intel's current generation of consumer processors is designed to provide users with an amazing level of performance, the company's previous generation of microprocessors is still in the top spot of the users' preferences. One of the main reasons for this is that these Core 2 Duo processors are...

13 April 2009
04:17 GMT

MSI's N285GTX with SuperPipe Offers 90% Thermal Efficiency Boost

Taipei, Taiwan-based MSI has certainly made a name for itself in the market for high-end graphics cards and motherboards, with the company having launched a series of new cards that take performance to a whole new level. One of its most recent releases comes in the form of an NVIDIA GT200-based graphics card that is ...

27 March 2009
06:43 GMT

Rumor Mill: AMD's Phenom II X3 Processors Have Four Working Cores

Earlier this month Sunnyvale, California-based AMD announced the introduction of new Phenom II processors, providing users with new quad-core and triple-core AMD chips. The Phenom II X3 710 and 720 models are the first of the company's triple-core offering that boasts the new 45nm process technology, providing u...

24 February 2009
06:33 GMT

AMD Phenom II X4 Sets New 3DMark06 World Record

It appears that the launch of AMD's latest 45nm Phenom II processors has once again sparked the interest of all those overclocking enthusiasts that would go on pushing the limits of some of the latest hardware components on the market. We have already seen how the new chips have been used in some overclocking de...

18 February 2009
03:06 GMT

Phenom II X4 Reaches 6665MHz, Just Short of 3DMark Record

Prior to the release of AMD's latest 45nm Phenom processors, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker made some demonstrations of its latest generation Phenom CPUs. The company wanted to demo the overclocking capabilities of its new Phenom processors and the performance they can achieve by implementing support...

17 February 2009
11:13 GMT

IBUYPOWER Intros Affordable Dragon-Based Gaming Rigs

Just recently, AMD has made the headlines with the much anticipated launch of the company's first 45nm consumer processors, the new Phenom II CPUs. Alongside the launch of these new high-performance desktop processors, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker also announced its latest gaming-ready platform, su...

13 February 2009
03:23 GMT

Corsair Officially Intros the Next-Generation Dominator Series

Corsair, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-performance memory products, has finally decided to take its Dominator series of memory modules to the next iteration, officially introducing the Dominator GT memory series. Announced for some time now and made available through the company’s new o...

6 February 2009
03:05 GMT

Phenom II Breaks 6.5GHz, Enables New 3DMark Record

Prior to the official release of AMD's next-generation 45nm Phenom II processors, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker held a number of events where it approached the opportunity of demonstrating the overclocking potential of its latest desktop processors. Soon after their official release at the Consumer ...

26 January 2009
12:00 GMT

Palit Puts Dual-Fan Cooling on 55nm GTX 260

NVIDIA has already upped the ante with the release of its latest 55nm-based GT200 GPUs, which have been launched under the form of two new graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 285 and the dual-GPU GTX 295. However, these two cards have been designed for computer and technology enthusiasts looking for high-end graphics sol...

23 January 2009
09:45 GMT

EVGA to Provide Voltage Tuner, Enthusiasts Already Overjoyed

EVGA is one of NVIDIA's largest partners providing the latter’s fans with some of the most solid graphics cards on the market. The company is also a favorite among computer and technology enthusiasts, as it offers factory-overclocked cards, based on NVIDIA GPUs, providing its customers with an impressive s...

23 January 2009
07:01 GMT

AMD Phenom II Offers 20 Percent Performance Gains

This year is almost over, and 2009 will bring to the table the latest innovations from Advanced Micro Devices in the form of the next-generation Phenom II processors. In only about three weeks from now, we'll be able to actually get our hands on the highest performing micro-processor AMD has ever created. T...

15 December 2008
05:17 GMT

A-DATA Unleashes the XPG DDR3-2133X v2.0 Memory Kits

A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in high performance memory products, announced the introduction of new enthusiast memory modules, the A-DATA XPG DDR3-2133X v2.0 kits, as part of the company's X series. The new high-performance modules are able to operate at incredible speeds of 2133MHz while feat...

13 December 2008
05:16 GMT

Core i7 Overclocked to 5510.09 MHz

Intel's Core i7 processors are registering a good penetration of the market these days, as they bring a lot of performance improvements over existing parts, and users are looking closer and closer at the capabilities of the new chips. Some of them are looking so close that take the CPU and try to make it give it...

3 December 2008
05:59 GMT

AMD Phenom II X4 Goes 6.3GHz

Advanced Micro Device's upcoming Phenom II X4 processor keeps on surprising us these days with its overclocking capabilities. Only a few days ago it was reported to enter POST while clocked over 5GHz; this time we learn that it has managed to reach 6.3GHz while remaining stable. It seems that the company wanted ...

25 November 2008
10:33 GMT

Intel Atom Reaches 2.38GHz on Liquid Nitrogen

It appears that almost everybody is talking these days about the overclocking capabilities of Intel's newest Core i7 processors and AMD's upcoming 45nm-based Phenom II X4 CPUs. However, news about an overclocked Intel Atom processor, the CPU that currently powers most of the low-power, low-cost portable com...

25 November 2008
09:33 GMT

ECS Enables Higher Overclocking for Core i7 CPUs

With almost every motherboard manufacturer releasing their own socket LGA1366-based motherboard, designed to support Intel's latest desktop computer chips, it is relatively hard to tell the difference between one product and the other, as all basically provide the same features. However, ECS decided to take thin...

25 November 2008
06:41 GMT

Sparkle Adds GeForce Overclocking Utility

Sparkle, one of NVIDIA's largest board partners, has just introduced a new overclocking tool designed for the company's high-end graphics cards, expected to be bundled with the Sparkle-designed GeForce cards. The software utility will allow NVIDIA graphics card owners to easily overclock their car...

7 November 2008
04:54 GMT

Core i7 Goes 5GHz

The recent few days have been filled with reviews and test results on the upcoming Intel Core i7 processors. The new 45nm CPUs have been expected to arrive for quite some time now, as the chipmaker spread the word on the great capabilities of its architecture, code-named Nehalem. As the company promised, the chips ar...

5 November 2008
05:42 GMT

ASUS Rampage II Extreme Feat. Core i7 and 3-way SLI GTX280 Overclocked

Since Intel’s Core i7 chips made it to the headlines with architectural details and their overclocking capabilities, news on optimal platforms that allow users to leverage speed and, as an effect, the performance of the processors, also came up soon enough. Quite a few makers have already been reported to ...

4 November 2008
04:16 GMT

Overclocking Intel Core i7

The Web has been flooded for some hours with a lot of news on Intel's upcoming Core i7 processors. Test samples arrived to reviewers and we've seen quite a few articles that describe the architecture and the performance levels of the chips. The first impression is that the giant chip manufacturer managed to...

4 November 2008
03:08 GMT

MSI Wind to Feature Overclocking Capabilities

MSI Wind owners have a reason to cheer, as the company announced the release of an updated BIOS for this mobile machine, one that enables users to operate some changes in their processor's speed. To put it simple, users are able to overclock their mobile machine nice and easy, which is something we do not see ev...

28 October 2008
05:09 GMT

Intel Readies DCC Utility for Core i7

Intel's newest microprocessors, the Nehalem-based Core i7 series, will be on the market in a very short period of time. The company has high expectations for the lineup, and while everybody is waiting for the launch, the chips make it to the headlines almost everyday. The Core i7 CPUs are reported not to do very...

27 October 2008
01:38 GMT

Intel's QX9300 Mobile CPU Goes 3.7GHz

At the Intel Developer Forum in Taiwan, the leading Santa Clara-based chipmaker demonstrated its Core 2 Quad QX9300 Extreme Edition processor, a product the company seems to be very proud of, given the show off it made. The new CPU comes with a stock clock of 2.53GHz and a 1,066MHz bus. Also, it features a nice 2MB L...

22 October 2008
04:08 GMT

Memory Overclocking for Core i7, Voltage Safety Zone

More news on the upcoming Intel Core i7 processors is delivered at IDF, which takes place these days in Taipei. The company announced that the voltage for the DDR3 used with the chips would not be limited to 1.65V, and added that this is a safe range to ensure a long life for the processor. As we already explained, t...

21 October 2008
03:19 GMT

ASUS Officially Details First X58 Motherboard

It looks like the first motherboard to feature Intel's latest generation X58 chipset has officially been introduced by Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS. The company's new P6T DELUXE mobo is touted as featuring Intel's latest desktop platform, although there's no direct specification of that being the X...

30 September 2008
09:55 GMT

AMD's Fusion for Gaming Utility Could Disable Antivirus Applications

Last Thursday, Advanced Micro debuted its new “The Future is Fusion” campaign, whose main purpose is to inform users about the different technologies and products coming from the Sunnyvale, California-based company. Moreover, the Fusion campaign is also meant to provide details of how AMD's pro...

22 September 2008
05:59 GMT

Intel's Core i7 CPUs to Deliver Overclocking Potential

Leading chip manufacturer Intel is expected to finally unveil its highly anticipated Nehalem-based CPUs sometime in November and, as we are getting closer to the release date, more details on the company's next-generation Core i7 models emerge. It appears that the Santa Clara-based chip maker has at least one ac...

19 September 2008
09:08 GMT

Patriot Designs New 4GB DDR3 Low-Latency Memory Kits

DDR3 is not too far from becoming the next memory standard in the computing market, and from being integrated in upcoming computer systems, especially since both Intel and AMD are expected to release their next-generation processors, coming with native support for DDR3, soon. This is probably why several memory manuf...

5 September 2008
05:59 GMT

NITRO, the GeForce Hardware Overclocking Device

While NVIDIA is yet to announce the next-generation products at its NVISION event, it appears that at least one of the company's channel partners has taken this opportunity to introduce a product of its own. Consequently, today, at NVISION, Zotac, a graphics card manufacturer and an NVIDIA partner, has unleashed...

25 August 2008
09:16 GMT

Intel's Nehalem Overclocks to 4GHz with Air Cooling Solution

As we are getting closer to the release date for Intel's highly anticipated Core i7 processors, codenamed Nehalem, more rumors about the company's next-generation processing units emerge. As already noted in some of our previous articles, the Nehalem architecture has been designed to provide computer enthus...

25 August 2008
05:43 GMT


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