OVERCLOCKING IN 2024 HAS THE END ARRIVED FOR HIGH VOLTAGE?

Zak Storey takes a look at whether overclocking is really worth it anymore.

There’s something inherently human about pushing technology to its limits. Companies do this all the time: building, developing, iterating on designs, new hardware, trying to eek out every last fleck of performance to beat the competition. The same can be said for amateur enthusiasts. There are very few people that don’t try to optimise how they work, their PC, or the hardware inside it. Overclocking, by its very nature, speaks to that. In essence, it’s a love language for your PC. In the same way that you can get attached to a car, tool, or fishing rod, you can also become attached to a processor. It’s a bit of a bizarre quirk of humanity, this attachment to objects, as if they have personality; a soul. The thing is, some processors…

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