Intel has taken back the gift of “free” overclocking that it gave hardware tweakers when introducing its Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processor lines. Geoff Gasior at The Tech Report writes that has ...

Apparently, Intel does not like its customers overclocking their new Haswell chips on non-Z87-equipped motherboards. Several of the large motherboard manufacturers have released workarounds that allow ...

Memory Asus says its Intel 800-series motherboards are approved to run DDR5-7200 without an XMP profile, pointing to a RAM speed boost for an Arrow Lake refresh Motherboards AI, take the wheel: ...

It's been just over a year since Intel launched Haswell, its first major core update in several years. Despite that core's notable improvements for mobile products and its improved graphics ...

Intel's Haswell is a bit of a puzzle. On the one hand, this is the fastest single-threaded chip in the world -- but on the other, it's hard to get excited about a chip that's only a few percent faster ...

Intel has decided that will not allow non K-series Haswell CPUs to be overclocked. According to Techreport, although Haswell offers more flexibility the form of additional base clock straps, access to ...

I'm a bit behind the times here, could someone please explain why only K series parts can be overclocked? So, back in the early 2000s - as I'm sure most remember - we had a FSB /or HyperTransport bus, ...

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With Intel's Haswell fourth-generation Core processors, overclocking on K-series CPUs is technically limited to motherboards using the high-end Z87 chipset. However, a number of motherboard ...