The days when you could overclock your Intel “K” or “KF” chip with impunity, while liquid nitrogen vapor wafted through the long tresses of your hair, are over. On Monday, Intel abruptly ended its ...

I daresay that a portion of you would not be aware that Intel offered their customers the opportunity to take out an extended warranty on their K processors. Specifically, for owners who were planning ...

Intel has announced the end of its Performance Tuning Protection Plan (PTPP). An end-user who previously bought a PTPP from Intel was guaranteed a one-time replacement CPU if they fried their chip by ...

Cutting corners: Intel has decided to discontinue its Performance Tuning Protection Plan service, which served as a supplementary warranty that enthusiasts could purchase for CPU overclocking.

Now, in fairness, Intel does have a point here. Although you can overclock their non-K processors (albeit, having knowledge of how this works is clearly to your advantage given the lack of any OEM ...

One of the most interesting features of Intel’s recent Core i9-14900K is its AI-assisted overclocking. Available through the Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU), AI Assist is billed as the natural next step ...

Intel just announced its 12th-gen Alder Lake platform at the Intel Innovation event. In addition to six new processors, Intel detailed some key overclocking news for the upcoming range. Marrying ...

For anyone doing "light" overclocking (not trying to push to the edge of stability) are either using the Asus AI overclock in BIOS and/or Intel XTU "good enough"? The main thing I'm concerned about is ...

TechTuber Roman "der8auer" Hartung has been enjoying a tour of the Intel OC Lab in Portland, Oregon. Luckily for us, he made a video on the jaunt and teased a selection of hardware – and software – ...

If you know what you're doing and are willing to put in the time and research, overclocking is still a great way to squeeze out some added horsepower for essentially a free performance boost. You also ...