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SkatterBencher collaborates with EK showing the world's first water-cooled Ryzen 7000 PC and helps overclock it to 6
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We overclock the Intel Core i7-13700K up to 6000 MHz with the EK-Mana MSI MAG Z690 Torpedo EK X motherboard and EK custom loop water cooling. Raptor Lake processors provide a lot of room for performance tuning and overclocking, especially when paired with water cooling. By using a low-end Z690
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AGESA 1003 re-introduces Precision Boost C-State Boost Limiter which prevents boosting to over 5.5 GHz when more than 4 cores are active. In this quick article, I want to shed more light on the Precision Boost C-State Boost limiter I discussed previously in my Raphael launch blog. Here is what I
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I explain the main points of Raptor Lake tuning and talk a bit about my video and blog plans for Raptor Lake and beyond. As you can see, I have not uploaded my traditional “What’s New” blog detailing how to overclock Raptor Lake processors. There are a couple of reasons for that.
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We overclock the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X up to 5544 MHz with the ROG Strix X670E-F Gaming Wifi motherboard and EK custom loop water cooling. Even though the overclocking results may not be overly impressive, I hope you can still find value from the information I provide in this article. AMD Ryzen 5
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We overclock the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X up to 5750 MHz with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme motherboard and EK custom loop water cooling. Zen 4 provides a unique set of overclocking tools, so we will go over various overclocking strategies. Hopefully, it provides you with a solid foundation to
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We overclock the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X up to 5900 MHz with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme motherboard and EK custom loop water cooling. I will go over a variety of overclocking strategies and will even be able to show 6GHz at the very end of the article. Alright, we have lots to cover,
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We overclock the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X up to 5950 MHz with using the GIGABYTE X670E Aorus Master motherboard and EK-Quantum water cooling. Zen 4 provides a unique set of overclocking tools, so we will go over a wide variety of overclocking strategies. Hopefully, it gives you a solid foundation to start
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Raphael is finally here and just like with every new generation, a new CPU means new overclocking features. AMD’s brand new AM5 platform features the Raphael desktop processors and the Zen 4 architecture. AM5 is AMD’s first new socket for mainstream desktops since 2016 and coincides
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In this blog post, I update you on the progress I’ve made overclocking the Intel Arc A380 to 3.1 GHz with custom overclocking tools. As some of you may know, I purchased one of the GUNNIR Photon Arc A380 graphics cards at the beginning of this month from JD.com. I hoped it would be a
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We overclock the AMD Ryzen Threadripper “5990X” up to 4825 MHz with using the ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme Alpha and EK-Quantum water cooling. To be more precise, though, we’re overclocking an early engineering sample CPU that we assume was supposed to end up being the successor to the
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We overclock the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 up to 2205 MHz with using the ElmorLabs EVC2SX and GPU water cooling. This was my first look at an NVIDIA Turing graphics card, and naturally, I preferred to first have a go at the most low-end version, the TU117. The GT 1030 video from a couple of