Nvidia makes GPU overclocking a lot smarter with “Scanner”

Nvidia’s new 20-series video cards, due to ship next week, will introduce a new overclocking system: Scanner. Overclocking is typically a trial-and-error process: increase the clock speed, run some intensive workloads to make sure everything works OK, maybe fiddle with the GPU voltage to eke out a bit more stability. Push the clock speed too […]

Overclocking to 7GHz takes more than just liquid nitrogen

Over the years, I’ve been fascinated by two kinds of events at Computex: eSports and extreme PC overclocking competitions. I doubt I’d ever make it as a professional gamer (I’m more of a Counter Fight kind of guy than a Counter-Strike man these days), but I’d jump at any opportunity to pour liquid nitrogen onto […]