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You're scared to overclock your GPU, but you shouldn't be

Overclocking modern GPUs is easy and mostly safe. Risk is low, but warranty may void. Control temps with fan curves, power limits, and do paste/pad swaps if needed.
Guru3D

MSI Revives LIGHTNING with RTX 5090 Flagship Built for Overclocking

MSI has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 5090 32G LIGHTNING Z at CES 2026, marking the return of its LIGHTNING graphics ...
TweakTown

New graphics world record overclock is 4.25GHz - and we bet you can't guess the GPU used

TL;DR: SkatterBencher set a new GPU clock speed world record at Computex 2025 by overclocking the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K's integrated graphics to 4250MHz. That beat Splave's previous world record of ...
Guru3D

ASRock PSU Thermal Protection Prevents RTX 5090 Connector Meltdown at 1350 W OC

A user-reported incident highlights both the risks of extreme GPU overclocking and the growing importance of power supply ...
TweakTown

Here's everything Project G-Assist, NVIDIA's new AI assistant for GeForce RTX gamers, can do

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Project G-Assist is an AI assistant for GeForce RTX desktop owners, designed to optimize PC settings using voice or text commands. It can manage game settings, overclock GPUs, and ...
eTeknix

RTX 5050 Hits 3.4 GHz After Extreme Overclock, Becoming the Fastest GB207 GPU

The hardware modder known as Trashbench has set a new world record for overclocking with the RTX 5050. He managed to push a Gigabyte RTX 5050 GPU to sustained speeds of 3,468 MHz, representing a 23 % ...
PC Gamer

'MSI Afterburner is a bit PowerColor Afterburner now' as the dev had to buy another manufacturer's GPU to build support for AMD's RDNA 4 graphics cards into the next beta

GPU overclocking and tweaking tool Afterburner has been the app of choice for countless PC gamers around the world since it first launched way back in the late 2000s. Since then, it's supported almost ...