When we think of increasing performance with existing components, we often think about strategies like overclocking, increasing power limits, and replacing an existing cooling solution. While ...

Undervolting isn’t just about lowering your PC’s temperatures — it can also improve performance consistency, reduce noise, and extend component lifespan. By trimming excess voltage, your GPU or CPU ...

We’ve talked about overclocking your CPU, now we’re going through how to undervolt your CPU. The performance of your CPU is integral to the running of your PC or laptop, any electronic device really, ...

I want to poll that rational minds here at Ars rather than one of the hardware enthusiast forums for fear the only answer I would get there is, "MOOAR GHZ!!1!" I plan to replace my i7-4770S with ...

AMD has announced that it will add a new feature to its Ryzen 5000 CPUs this coming December. The company expects motherboard manufacturers to begin delivering UEFI updates with support for a new ...

In the Surface Pro world, some significant sustained performance gains can be achieved by undervolting the CPU/GPU. That is, keep the clock speeds the same, use less power and the CPU can stay in ...

Everyone's heard of overclocking a CPU to wring the last few drops of performance out it, right? Well, a notebook jockey's equivalent is called "undervolting" and it's designed to increase battery ...