The tempting idea behind overclocking is to increase system performance at very little cost. In many cases you only need to change a few settings on your motherboard to make your system run faster. In ...

And now the stock values of the most popular Core 2 Duo CPUs: In the above table, we've left out the Xtreme models since, as we've said, this guide is aimed at ordinary folk not hard-core enthusiasts.

Overclocking RAM can significantly boost your system's performance by increasing the data transfer rate between the RAM and CPU. This enhancement is especially useful in high-performance setups.

Sometimes getting the best bang for your buck with PC components means putting a little extra work in, whether that's shopping around for the best prices online, or researching which CPU or GPU is ...

Overclocking has been a staple of PC enthusiasts almost as long as computers have existed. It started with soldering of crystals and basic tiny jumps of, in some cases, fractions of a megahertz. Today ...

E3 2015 has passed us by. AMD has shown us their new graphics cards, with relatively affordable cards like the GTX 970 offering Titan-levels of performance at a fraction of the cost, high performance ...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but in the PC hardware world, there is a way to get 10-15 percent additional graphics performance without spending a buck: Overclocking. Yes, it’s risky, it’ll ...