This is amazing. An enthusiastic overclocker by the handle of “Hicookie” has taken the Intel Core i7 3930K processor and cranked it up past 5.6GHz using a Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 motherboard. For stat fans, that’s the first motherboard to hit a 57x multiplier. More »
Just last month, AMD staged an event to squeeze an amazing 8429.38MHz out of its FX-8150 processor. The highest-clocked CPU in the world — it was a big production. And now they’ve been beat by a team of one. More »
It may not technically be the world’s fastest processor, but AMD squeezed an overclocked Guinness World Record number out of its impending 8-core FX CPU: 8.429GHz, beating the previous global high of 8.308GHz. Intel fanboys, begin your outrage! More »
We’ve featured one way to overclock your Android phone, but if you’re the lucky owner of a newer Motorola device, you can take all the effort out of overclocking with DX/D2 Overclocker. More »
Seriously, that’s got to hurt. Two forum-posters calling themselves Team DeFuse are claiming they successfully managed to overclock both the Droid 2 and Droid X, taking them from a decent 1GHz to spectacular 2GHz. We’d be concerned for their safety if we hadn’t seen they survived the task at least long enough to upload video proof of it. [Droid-Life via BGR]
Today we’re taking a closer look at SetCPU, the app that makes it happen — as well as other ways to use it. More »
Last week, PC Pro challenged its readers to see whose rig could render a 3D graphics benchmark the quickest. An Intel engineer took the prize using a test rig overclocked to nearly 5GHz and cooled to -40C. More »
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The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB of RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know. More »
Droid draggin’? Apps crawlin’? Android creepin’? Then maybe you should overclock your Droid to 1.1GHz, like this guy! But really no, don’t. More »
