If it were possible to melt the world with a single, rouge computer running out of control, it would be powered by this Intel 990x six-core behemoth. Overclocked to 7.1 GHz and cooled with liquid nitrogen means the end of the world is near should things get out of hand. At the very least, this kid got a very good chip. Now it’s time for you to hop in and watch the rather undramatic video in all its splendor… Video Via: ...

No, my GTX 580 hasn’t quite arrived yet. That little venture of joy starts tonight. But for those of you who have received your GTX 580′s and prepared to benchmark the living joules out of them, you’ve no doubt found out about Nvidia’s new power-limiting feature of the card. Included within the new drivers are special conditions for certain high-stress applications and services. When certain applications such as popular benchmarking tool, Furmark,...

Custom PC builders and fans of computer overclocking now have another tool to add to their collection. Popular computer hardware manufacturer, Sapphire, has released a new GPU overclocking tool called “Trixx”. Essentially, it does the same thing as several other tools provided GPU manufacturers — allows you to adjust frequency clocks and voltages on your graphics cards, as well as letting your tweak fan settings. The latter is a huge help, especially...

At one point and time, we believed it to be damn near impossible to crack the Droid X. Motorola’s hardware nanny’s were designed to ruin all of our hacking fun. But the talented bunch of Android hackers and developers set out on liberating the platform. And now, several months later, after gaining root access and custom ROMs, the DX can add another notch to the belt — overclocking. Overclocking turned the 1st gen Droid from merely snappy to flying. ...

Well if this turns out to be as serious as it sounds, it’ll be a massive blow to Intel’s image (in my book) and give plenty of people reason to switch to AMD. As the story goes, Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge platform will completely switch up the current Core i3/i5/i7 way of overclocking. As it stands now, overclocking enthusiasts ramp up the base clock (which starts at 133MHz) in order to speed up the processor itself and RAM — those are the two...