AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card, initially designed for customers in China and later sold in more markets, has officially reached a frequency of 3.9 GHz. TechPowerUp Forum user "ShrimpBrime" created custom tools for Radeon GPUs called "R-Team OC" and "GPU Frequency Generator." Using the stock XFX Radeon RX 9070 GRE Swift GPU without any VBIOS modifications, specialized cooling, or other hardware changes, the overclock was stable for some time. However, the driver crashed and recovered shortly after the screenshots were taken. Utilizing the custom-developed RTOC tool for Radeon tuning and monitoring, the GPU was loaded with regular triangles in DirectX 9 instead of a demanding 3D title, meaning that this OC is not applicable in real-world testing, but serves as a proof of concept.

Using a customized GPU frequency generator built in DirectX 9, the GPU rendered a simple scene containing 2,048 triangles per draw call and 2,048 draw calls per frame, totaling 4,194,304 triangles. This is light work for modern graphics cards but just enough to maintain a high frequency. The developer says the 3.9 GHz reading was maintained under load rather than appearing as a momentary telemetry spike, while approximately 3.85 GHz was reproduced repeatedly, including with AMD's own Radeon Software overclocking controls. To verify the readings, ShrimpBrime compared GPU-Z and HWiNFO64 with telemetry gathered through AMD's ADL and ADLX interfaces. RTOC polls shared monitoring data every 2 ms, although fresh power-management telemetry reportedly arrives roughly every 15.5 ms.

AMD is reportedly working on official Ryzen overclocking controls for Linux. Per Phoronix, AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K has posted a three-patch series for a new driver called AOD, short for AMD Overclocking Driver, to the platform-driver-x86 mailing list. It is a WMI driver that talks to the same firmware interface Ryzen Master uses on Windows, with all of its controls exposed through sysfs. For now, that covers PPT, TDC, and EDC limits along with their supported ranges, a platform-level SMT toggle, and a read-only memory clock readout. Notably, Ryzen Master itself isn't coming to Linux with this. AMD seems to be following the same approach it took with its amdgpu graphics driver, handling the kernel side and leaving the GUI to third-party tools such as CoreCtrl and to desktop environments.

There are a few catches, however. Power limit changes are stored in firmware and only kick in after a reboot. AMD's existing HSMP interface works the other way around, applying limits instantly but losing them on restart. The PPT, TDC, and EDC attributes are also write-only, since the firmware doesn't report the currently active values. The SMT switch, meanwhile, behaves more like a BIOS option than the kernel's nosmt boot parameter. Apparently, the firmware supports many more commands than the initial patches wire up, so more controls could arrive later. The patches are still under review, and there is no word yet on which kernel release will pick them up, so a proper Linux app for this is probably still a while away.

Colorful has just released its latest overclocking motherboard, the X870E Ultra-S V14, a new E-ATX unit with 16+2+1 power phases, five M.2 slots, and plenty of high-speed I/O. The new motherboard, as shared by IT Home, is priced at 1,899 CNY, which comes out to around $284 at the time of writing, although it only seems to be available in China for the time being. The iGame X870E Ultra-S V14 is explicitly marketed to overclockers on AMD's AM5 platform, bearing XMP/EXPO memory overclocking and asynchronous BCLK CPU overclocking, a digital debug display, EZ Debug diagnosis, and easily accessible rear I/O buttons for both clear CMOS and BIOS updates.

The motherboard also features Wi-Fi 7 and 5 GbE networking built-in, alongside expansive rear I/O that includes: 4× USB Type-A 5 Gbps, 3× USB Type-A 10 Gbps, 2× USB Type-A 2.0, 2× USB4 40 Gbps, and both 3.5 mm line in/out ports and SPDIF out for audio. Colorful claims that its 16+2+1 VRMs are capable of 80 A, and the VRMs are covered by beefy aluminium heat sinks. It also has five M.2 slots for expanded storage, each with its own heat sink. The Colorful iGame X870E Ultra-S V14 is available on JD.com at the time of writing.

Overclocker Luumi has taken the top spot in HWBot's Cinebench R11.5 rankings for the Intel Core i5-4670K, beating a record that had stood for around 12 years. Running the 2013 Haswell quad-core at 6,301 MHz under liquid nitrogen, Luumi scored 10.8 cb, just edging out Strat's previous 10.76 cb at 6,249 MHz. That's roughly 66% above the chip's 3.8 GHz boost clock, which is quite a lot for a four-core, four-thread part built on Intel's 22 nm process. The top of the leaderboard is tight as well, with Moose83 sitting third at 10.74 cb out of 187 submissions. Of course, this is a record for the i5-4670K category, not an overall Cinebench R11.5 world record. Luumi also has a history with Cinebench, having set an 8-core world record on an EVGA Z390 Dark back in 2018.

The test bench was period-correct too. Luumi used an ASRock Z97 OC Formula, the same board that pushed a Core i7-4790K past 7 GHz back in 2014, along with 4 GB of XPG DDR3 running at 2,708 MT/s with 8-12-7-28 timings and a Corsair AXi 1600 power supply. The run was done on Windows 7, as HWBot's R11.5 rules apparently don't allow pre-Skylake Intel chips on newer versions of Windows without BenchMate. Haswell is no stranger to extreme clocks, as the Core i7-4770K was overclocked to 7 GHz before it even launched in 2013. A modern 12-core laptop reportedly scores around four times higher in R11.5 while running in quiet mode, so the achievement here is about squeezing every last megahertz out of 13-year-old silicon.

Responding to a question from a customer with a stained copper cold plate, modder and overclocker, Der8auer, has published an analysis of Thermal Grizzly's Conductonaut Extreme liquid metal thermal interface, revealing the long-term effects of the TIM. In the video, published to YouTube, Der8auer explains that the staining that can often be seen after the use of liquid metal TIMs is a simple reaction between the copper and gallium in the liquid metal forming CuGa2 in what is known as a peritectic reaction. The resulting alloy has an effective thermal conductivity of around 100 W/m·K, which is significantly lower than pure copper but much higher than the liquid metal alone. Fortunately, this deposition grows at around 1 µm per day until it reaches 50-100 µm, and it is given as the explanation for online reports of liquid metal evaporation over time.

Moving onto the actual long-term testing and analysis, Der8auer analyzed a copper plug applied with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut Extreme intermittently over a two-year period to see how the thermal interface material changed over time. While the liquid's surface is clearly visible under the electron microscope after the initial application, it changed significantly after just two weeks, with obvious crystallization and solid particulates forming in the TIM surface. These crystals continued to grow as the test sample sat in a de-oxygenated environment, losing any appearance of the liquid by the end of the second month after the initial application, with the surface then comprised exclusively of crystals. No further changes were observed in the liquid metal's surface between the two-month and two-year marks, suggesting that no major changes happened after the first 50-60 days, as predicted by Der8auer's initial explanation that peritectic deposition would occur at a rate of roughly 1 µm per day until it reached around 50 µm thick.

Vince "KINGPIN" Lucido has blamed NVIDIA for the troubled launch of the EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN, the last graphics card to carry his name. In the first video on his new Overclocking Kingpin YouTube channel, the overclocker said he wanted the card to have two 12VHPWR power connectors, while NVIDIA wanted it limited to just one. The disagreement, in his words, "really screwed up the production timeline", and he also holds it responsible for how few units were made afterward. The card did eventually ship with both 16-pin connectors when it went on sale for $2,500 with a bundled 1600 W power supply, about three months after the RTX 3090 Ti itself came out. This is only Lucido's side of the story, and it isn't clear why NVIDIA pushed for a single connector.

In September 2022, EVGA ended its partnership with NVIDIA and stopped making graphics cards, with CEO Andrew Han pointing to a souring relationship between the two companies. Every card in development was canceled, KINGPIN models included. Lucido is now working with ASUS, which sent over the hardware shown in the video, although no ASUS-made KINGPIN card has been confirmed. He did lay out one condition for such a card: the PCB and power delivery have to let the GPU reach its full potential under liquid nitrogen without the buyer modifying anything. An earlier plan with PNY never produced a card, and Lucido ended up skipping the RTX 50 generation entirely.

After EVGA's abrupt exit from the GPU space, high-profile Vince Lucido, aka Kingpin, seemingly took a hiatus from the PC overclocking scene, aside from briefly working with PNY on a planned RTX 50-series launch before scrapping the project. Now, as per a recent video update on his YouTube channel, Lucido has found another hardware partner for his signature overclocking GPUs in ASUS.

In the update, Lucido confirms that he has "some really sick hardware from ASUS and Corsair to start with," and that he has had "numerous talks" with high-level management at ASUS, which are what ultimately persuaded him to get back into the overclocking industry. He has promised that whatever he has planned for PC overclocking will appear on the Overclock Kingpin YouTube channel, which has no published videos at the time of writing.

The ElmorLabs Power Management Device 2 (PMD2) is a discrete power management device that allows tinkerers and hardcore overclockers to monitor their system at a hardware level and on a per-device basis. The latest update to the PMD2 is the PMD2X, which adds per-wire current, power, and voltage monitoring to the device's 12v-2×6 and 12VHPWR monitoring. The product's software component now also allows users to set up an audible alarm when individual wires exceed maximum thresholds, effectively allowing it to fulfil the role of something like a Cooler Master GPU shield.

In addition to the new audio alarm and granular GPU power connector monitoring, the PMD2X also features compatibility with Seeed Studio XIAO boards, allowing for wireless connectivity, although this will require more than a little additional work to set up. This effectively turns the ElmorLabs PMD2X into a safety tool that can be used in a daily driver capacity as well as for the hardcore overclocking and tinkering that it was originally designed for. The ElmorLabs PMD2X is available for $109 on the ElmorLabs official store.

When it was first revealed that EVGA would be leaving the GPU industry, there was speculation that the hardware maker was leaving the industry partly due to direct competition from NVIDIA's own Founder's Edition cards—reference designs that were previously under the purview of EVGA at launch. In a new blog post on his personal blog, former EVGA Product Manager, Brendon Ray Hedrick, confirmed in a recent blog post that these concerns were real, and that they were felt inside EVGA when NVIDIA started selling its own Founder's Edition GPUs more prominently around the launch of the Pascal generation.

When NVIDIA introduced the Pascal Founders Edition cards in 2016, I remember people at EVGA worrying about what that meant for us. We were used to selling NVIDIA's reference designs with our name on them. NVIDIA had sold its own cards before, but this was when the tension became clear to me: the company supplying our GPUs was also making a prominent pitch to sell finished cards directly to our customers. At that launch, the GTX 1080 Founders Edition carried a premium over the announced starting price for partner cards. The concern was the relationship itself. We depended on NVIDIA while competing with it for the same buyers.

A new tool called Hypertune has emerged after being in early testing with 60,000 PC DIY enthusiasts. According to exclusive launch coverage from GamesBeat, a Miami-based gaming company announced a new automated overclocking platform named Gaming Performance Engineering, which is said to deliver a significant FPS performance boost of up to 60%. While that figure sounds impressive, it is not expected to become the norm, as most systems will see only a few percentage points of improvement. The company states that Hypertune is based on Intel's Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) software development kit (SDK) and was developed in partnership with Intel, which supported the project with engineering resources.

The tool itself includes automated overclocking for your CPU and GPU and optimizes RAM settings for improved latency, frequency, and overall performance. Once downloaded, the tool analyzes hardware configuration, drivers, Windows settings, and other elements. The company refers to this as a Smart Optimization Engine, which first monitors and observes your system's configuration to deliver an optimization preset. After applying this preset, users should notice immediate differences. For example, Hypertune demonstrated two systems: one featuring an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPU, and the other with a Core i7-14700K and an RTX 3080 GPU. The first system showed performance gains ranging from 18.9% to 28.2%, while the second saw a boost in frames per second ranging from 4.3% to 9.8%.

A modding group called Paralympics Productions has gotten Grand Theft Auto 5 running natively on the original Nintendo Switch, using a homebrew port built from the game's 2023 leaked source code. Rockstar never released GTA 5 on Switch hardware, despite the game shipping all the way back in 2013 on PS3 and Xbox 360, so this fills a gap the studio didn't choose to fill. Reverse-engineering the leaked "Legacy" source let the team recompile the game's logic for Arm and run it directly on the Switch's Tegra X1 chip, with no Android layer or emulation involved. You do need a jailbroken and overclocked Switch to get anything resembling a playable framerate, though.

At stock clocks, the game reportedly limps along at 10-25 FPS, and only settles into a steadier 30 FPS once the CPU, GPU, and memory are pushed past their limits through tools like sys-clk. Given the Tegra X1 is over a decade old and thermally constrained even in its own console, that's a fairly reasonable outcome for a 2013 game running its actual PC-tier logic on hardware never meant to touch it. The full install reportedly weighs in around 49GB, and Paralympics Productions has already shipped a few patches, with an Android port apparently in the works too. Of course, this doesn't automatically mean GTA 6 is coming to Switch 2 anytime soon, since this only works because of the leaked source code.

Brazilian YouTube group TecLab has bypassed the RTX 5090's notorious melting problem in the most direct way possible. The group removed the 16-pin connector from the equation entirely and soldered power wires straight onto the PCB. The demonstration used a Galax RTX 5090D HOF OC LAB XOC, an extreme-overclocking variant with two 16-pin inputs and a custom BIOS rated for up to 2,000W, far above the 575W TDP of a standard RTX 5090. TecLab framed the mod as a sarcastic jab at NVIDIA, saying that enthusiasts are tired of hearing about connectors melting and that they wanted to show how it should have been done from the start.

The team stripped the card's stock cooler entirely, running the bare GPU under an industrial liquid chiller with two loosely mounted fans for extra airflow. Two adapters converted standard 16-pin PSU cables into bare wires, which were then soldered directly onto the connector traces on the board. No temperature readings were shared, but a roughly 50A draw on the 12V rail put the card at around 600W during testing, and it booted and ran benchmarks without issue.

We recently reported on the open-source overclocking tool, mVolt+, unlocking power limit control on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000-series GPUs, allowing certain GPUs, like the RTX 5090, to draw up to 125 W of additional power and enabling significantly higher core clock speeds as a result. With the latest driver update 616.56, however, it seems as though NVIDIA has blocked the core power control functionality.

Based on reports from the Overclock.net forums, via Uniko's Hardware on X, any attempt to input any extra current results in a black screen, reminiscent of a driver crash. Reportedly, a beta build of Hydra 2.3 is still able to access its core power overrides on NVIDIA GPUs, even after the driver update. It's unclear if NVIDIA has intentionally blocked mVolt+ or if it's simply an untested combination of mVolt+ and the new NVIDIA driver causing an incompatibility.

The latest mVolt+ v0.36 update added a number of video card power and voltage management features that appear to make it possible to bypass the stock power limits of some NVIDIA RTX 50-series GPUs without the typical shunt mod or flashing a new vBIOS. Using the new capabilities, one user on r/Overclocking on Reddit claims to have reached 700 W total power draw on their NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, scoring 16,523 points in 3DMark Steel Nomad in the process. That's a 125 W up from a stock 5090 TDP of 575 W.

Based on the screenshots of the aforementioned 3DMark benchmark, the GPU topped out at 3,127 MHz, which is a substantial 720 MHz higher than the reference design's 2,407 MHz clock speed. Another user, reporting their results to VideoCardz, managed to overclock an ASUS ROG Astral NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 OC to draw a total of 680 W, up from a stock TDP of 400 W—although this can be increased to 450 W with an official tool. In this case, the user notes that there is no shunt mod in use.

CPUID has released an update to one of the most popular utilities in the world of PC hardware with the official launch of CPU-Z version 3.01, the first stable release in the CPU-Z 3.0 family. Much has changed within the CPU-Z software itself, as it now provides more detailed validation results for regular users and clearer validation for extreme overclocking scenarios. The familiar CPU-Z skin still runs on top of the desktop application, but the validation process has become more interesting. CPUID claims that in less than 10 seconds, users will see a new CPU-Z Validation V3 displayed, offering a much deeper system analysis. The tool now covers over 100 detection points, including outdated drivers, overheating SSDs or CPUs, hardware issues, and even bloatware.

The tool has improved XOC validation for extreme overclockers aiming to break world records. Under CPU-Z Validator V2, Standard Mode required a five-second load, with all frequency data sources needing to stay within 1% of each other, or the validation would be rejected. V2's XOC Mode removed the load and most internal checks, resulting in an "unsure" status. With V3 XOC Mode, CPU-Z continues to disable the load while calculating both effective and input frequencies. If the effective frequency is lower than the input frequency, the submission can still be validated, with the effective frequency used as the final validated result. This should make XOC validation more accommodating and could lead to new overclocking records beyond today's validated results. Below is an example result of CPU-Z running on an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U SoC, showcasing the new validator page look.

DOWNLOAD: CPU-Z v3.01.

The MSI ClawLab Intel VRR Range Fix is a community project that aims to bring improved VRR support and other fixes to MSI's Claw gaming handheld series, and the project has just announced its biggest update so far, v2.2.0. In the new update for the MSI Claw A1M, Claw 7 AI+, Claw 8 AI+, and Claw 8 EX AI+, the utility adds new profiles to the MSI Claw handhelds that unlock stable VRR range of 30-120 Hz and 45-120 Hz on the Claw handhelds and adds testing profiles of up to 180 Hz to certain models.

The new testing profiles overclock the validated displays in the aforementioned claw models to 48-165 Hz, 48-180 Hz, 30-144 Hz, 30-165 Hz, and 30-180 Hz, all of which are untested and to be considered unstable and experimental. According to the dev team, whether individual panels will be able to use those profiles is basically up to a display quality lottery—that is to say it is up to chance. The ClawLab Intel VRR Range Fix 2.2.0 update can be installed following the instructions on the project's GitHub.

Linux GPU overclocking and monitoring tool, LACT, has officially launched v0.10.0, adding a host of new overclocking and sensor options for NVIDIA GPUs. The update notes mention PowerMizer mode, which allows users to force the NVIDIA GPUs into the highest p-state. The update also adds "Voltage boost," a new slider that allows the GPU to draw more voltage—as opposed to a more traditional voltage offset slider. The developers note that this slider merely adds more headroom for certain overclocks.

The update also adds new sensor read-outs for both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. NVIDIA users on Blackwell GPUs now have access to hotspot sensors and per-memory-chip temperature sensors for both GDDR6x and GDDR7. On the AMD side of things, there is now support for graphical GTT memory display—GPU-accessible system memory—which is noted to be particularly helpful for iGPUs in high-memory-load applications and games, but may also be helpful when using older, low-VRAM GPUs, since those may also require spilling over into system memory more often. Check out the full update notes for more.

The Valve Steam Machine is known for running cool and quietly, but one modder decided to kick things up a notch when it comes to the Steam Machine's cooling solution, creating a custom liquid cooled Steam Machine using a desktop CNC machine, impressive reverse engineering, and less than $200 in parts.

The modder, who goes by u/techmagnet on Reddit, has published a handful of in-progress dev logs of his liquid cooled Steam Machine project, with the latest being a short edit of the build process and the end result. The mod required a custom-machined copper water block, a heavily modded Steam Machine chassis, and an Alphacool water pump to build the custom loop.

Gigabyte, the world's leading computer brand, continues to advance motherboard innovation by pushing its performance to a new industry standard. From Ultra Durable, performance-focused Super Overclocking technology to the latest AI-enhanced D5 Bionic Corsa and X3D Turbo Mode 2.0, Gigabyte continues to transform engineering challenges into leading innovations for AI computing and gaming.

With the rise of AI technology, Gigabyte integrates AI-driven tuning, hardware design, and advanced BIOS optimization for a smarter, faster, and more adaptive motherboard platform. At the core of Gigabyte's AI-enhanced innovation is X3D Turbo Mode 2.0, designed to maximize AMD Ryzen X3D processor performance through a dynamic AI overclocking engine and a dedicated onboard hardware chip. The exclusive OC engine is trained on massive datasets and optimized for per-processor tuning, while the onboard chip continuously monitors platform conditions and workload behavior in real time. This intelligent hardware-software integration enables adaptive optimization for AI computing, multitasking, and gaming scenarios.

Alongside a handful of new notebooks and pre-built desktop PCs, Colorful, the Chinese electronics brand widely known for its motherboards and NVIDIA GPUs, has revealed a chunky, white and gold iGame GeForce RTX 5090D v2 Arcanix 24 GB graphics card at Computex. The new GPU bears the brand's 30th anniversary branding and a bold white and gold color scheme, with what appears to be a massive 3.5- or four-slot cooler that has four fans in total—three on the front, with an extra fan towards the rear of the backplate over a flow-through section of the heat sink.

Colorful has not shared much about the GPU's specifications, but it will be based on the 5090D V2 GPU, and the show unit TechPowerUp's news team checked out at Computex has three DisplayPort ports and an HDMI port as outputs. There is also an easily accessible toggle switch on the I/O section labelled "Normal" and "Turbo," indicating that there will be a factory overclock available. It's unclear whether this will be a global launch for Colorful or simply a China-exclusive, like many RTX 5090D V2 models are. Currently, Colorful's flagship 5090D V2 GPU

Silicon Power (SP) announces the launch of the ROG certified XPOWER Cyclone R DDR5 memory module, the latest addition to its performance-focused XPOWER gaming lineup. The new module will be showcased at COMPUTEX 2026, underscoring Silicon Power's continued push into high-performance gaming hardware designed for next-generation PC ecosystems.

ROG Certified for Next-Generation Gaming Systems
Developed in close collaboration with ASUS and validated through extensive testing within the ROG ecosystem as part of the brand's 20th anniversary initiatives, the XPOWER Cyclone R carries the prestigious ROG (Republic of Gamers) Certified badge, a validation reserved for components that meet ASUS's rigorous standards for compatibility, stability, and gaming performance across its premium platform ecosystem.

Golden Emperor International Ltd. - one of the world's leading PC components and peripheral manufacturers, is proud to announce its latest breakthrough in high-performance computing at Computex 2026. Leading the charge is the industry-first DDR5 8000 MT/s JEDEC Standard memory, alongside the global debut of the AQUARIUS Diamond RGB product line.

Witness 8000 MT/s: Simply Truly Plug & Play
GeIL is redefining the boundaries of high-speed DRAM by introducing the DDR5-8000 MT/s specification that fully adheres to JEDEC standards. Unlike traditional high-frequency modules that require manual BIOS adjustments or overclocking profiles, GeIL's JEDEC 8000 MT/s modules offer a "True Plug & Play" experience.

The legendary maker of Hall of Fame (HOF) GeForce GPUs, known for their exceptional overclocking capabilities, GALAX, is officially closing its operations after 30 years in business. GALAX, along with its KFA2 brand for the European market, will now be closed, with existing product inquiries managed by Palit—one of the largest GPU add-in card (AIC) manufacturers and a significant NVIDIA partner. Founded in Hong Kong in 1994, GALAX distinguished itself by creating high-performance designs with NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, particularly known for its HOF series. These iconic white-themed designs feature massive VRM circuitry for overclocking and higher-binned dies suitable for LN2 extreme overclocking scenarios. Over the past few generations, multiple world overclocking GPU records were achieved with GALAX HOF cards, and the brand has maintained that design language throughout the years.

After more than 30 years in business, GALAX is closing its operations, and these will be transferred to Palit, which will take full responsibility for "all activities and commitments related to the brand." This includes RMA services, warranty claims, product launches, and more. Interestingly, the announcement does not mention that the GALAX branding will be phased out. Only the actual company operations will be integrated into Palit. It's possible that Palit will retain the GALAX branding and its HOF name, which is well-known for high-performance overclocking among enthusiasts. It's worth noting that GALAX and its sister brand KFA2 have been operating for years with Palit's support as the parent company, so it's uncertain if the brand will continue its market presence under different management. GALAX and KFA2 have been sub-companies of Palit, and management claims that now is the time to unite all of Palit's brands under one roof.

Update 11:05 UTC: Palit confirmed that the current GALAX branding will continue to be present on the market.

ASRock, the global leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, mini PCs, gaming monitors, power supply units, and AIOs, proudly announces outstanding overclocking achievements with its flagship ASRock X870E Taichi OCF motherboard, paired with the powerful AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor.

Professional overclockers AKM and l0ud_sil3nc3 have successfully pushed system performance to new heights across multiple benchmark platforms, securing several Global 1st Place records and top global rankings. These results once again demonstrate the extreme overclocking capability and rock-solid stability of the X870E Taichi OCF.

Intel's Robert Hallock, a vice president and general manager of the enthusiast section at the company, has announced plans to expand overclocking support to a much wider range of processors in the future. This is a significant move for Intel's product business, which has been producing CPUs unlocked for overclocking for years but typically reserved this capability for its K and KF SKUs. Robert Hallock argues that enabling this feature across a broader range of CPUs will allow enthusiasts at different price points to access one of the most appealing features of the K/KF SKUs. Just because a PC enthusiast buys at a different price point doesn't mean their enthusiasm is any less, and Intel aims to support that going forward. In an exclusive interview with PC Games Hardware, we learn more about this initiative and get a quote below.

Robert HallockWhat you will see is more and more unlocked SKUs over time. That is the goal. That should not be a feature that is exclusively reserved for the people paying the most amount of money. Not everyone can afford the most amount of money...and that doesn't make them any less an enthusiastic than the person who can spend 500 USD on a CPU. They are still PC enthusiasts, and they deserve the same level of features, and that is what we intend to deliver in our roadmap.