Undervolting your CPU can be a great way to improve its operating temperatures and reduce its power draw, but if your chip is running too hot and heavy most of the time, undervolting can actually ...

When we think of increasing performance with existing components, we often think about strategies like overclocking, increasing power limits, and replacing an existing cooling solution. While ...

We’ve talked about overclocking your CPU, now we’re going through how to undervolt your CPU. The performance of your CPU is integral to the running of your PC or laptop, any electronic device really, ...

I want to poll that rational minds here at Ars rather than one of the hardware enthusiast forums for fear the only answer I would get there is, "MOOAR GHZ!!1!" I plan to replace my i7-4770S with ...

Overclocking has, for decades, been something of a rite of passage for computer geeks everywhere. Overclocking your gaming PC can push the CPU and GPU to a new level of performance beyond what the ...

Everyone's heard of overclocking a CPU to wring the last few drops of performance out it, right? Well, a notebook jockey's equivalent is called "undervolting" and it's designed to increase battery ...

As AMD has been proudly trumpeting, the just-announced Ryzen 7000 series processors will be the first desktop processors to be fabricated using TSMC's 5N process. These will be the densest pieces of ...

A new attack on Intel’s CPUs, called Plundervolt, may have an unforeseen consequence. The mitigation that fixes it appears to lock the CPU voltage to default settings, possibly preventing users from ...

If you've got relatively modern hardware in your PC and want to get more performance out of it, undervolting your GPU is a ...

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