One of the most surprising bits of news from this week's Zen 4 launch was how hot AMD's newest CPUs can get. This is by design, according to AMD, but it conjures up thoughts of a Star Wars meme: You ...

AMD-sponsored overclocker Bill Alverson broke all records in Cinebench R23 and R20 for 16-core CPUs. Alverson got his Ryzen 9 7950X overclocked to 6.5 GHz. His scores ranks 37th in R23 and 88th in R20 ...

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D owners will want to replace it with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, the latest flagship gaming CPU, at least according to an AMD executive. The "overclocking factor" of the 9800X3D is ...

TL;DR: GIGABYTE's overclocker HiCookie set a new CPU frequency world record for AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, reaching 7.31GHz on the X870 AORUS Tachyon motherboard with LN2 cooling. This achievement boosts ...

The integrated heat spreaders put on CPUs at the factory are not the most thermally efficient material you could have on there, but what are you going to do—rip it off at the risk of killing your $500 ...

TL;DR: ASRock's X870E Taichi OCF motherboard enables extreme overclocking, demonstrated by professional overclocker Alex2305 setting a new CPU world record with the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 6,370 MHz, ...

Up until recently, it was thought that CUDIMMs would be exclusively supported by Intel's Arrow Lake-S desktop platform. However, it looks like AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors will also be able to ...

Several reports lately have covered a new type of memory for PC gamers called CUDIMM, for clocked, unbuffered dual-inline memory modules. These sticks feature an embedded clock generator that allows ...