Matthew is a PC Hardware Writer at XDA, having previously written for Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, and other publications since 2018. He's mainly interested in the three way fight between AMD, ...

You don’t buy one of the best gaming PCs because you just want to plug it in and have it run your games. That goes double if you built it yourself. You want it to put the pedal to the metal and give ...

Overclocking modern GPUs is easy and mostly safe. Expect a solid FPS boost of about 5–15%. Risk is low, but warranty may void. Control temps with fan curves, power limits, and do paste/pad swaps if ...

Overclocking your graphics card can improve its performance by 5% to as much as 15% (or more), depending on the particular card model. Of course, as with any overclocking, care should be taken to ...

The practice of "overclocking," specifically in regards to PC components, means to deliberately push a component past its manufacturer-established limits to generate improved performance. In layman's ...

MSI Afterburner is one of the best tools for overclocking your graphics card, and for monitoring its temperatures and fan speeds. A largely one-person project, MSI Afterburner is a superpopular ...

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When it comes to gaming on a PC, a lot of the culture is about maximizing the performance of your computer. PC gamers spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to optimize the perfect systems, and ...

Get even more performance, efficiency, and picture quality out of AMD Radeon RX 7000- and RX 6000-series graphics cards. AMD’s Radeon RX 7000-series graphics cards (and their predecessors, the RX 6000 ...

After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and ...