Sometimes the best hacks come from the most basic of questions. In this case, [CNLohr] was wondering what would happen if he started to reduce the clock speed of the ESP8266’s Baseband PLL (BBPLL) ...

When I mention the word "underclock," I am greeted by big frowns from my PC enthusiast friends. How dare I suggest that they lower their CPU or system speed! When I mention the word "overclock" to my ...

A computer's central processing unit, also known as its CPU, can be overclocked or underclocked. Overclocking involves the CPU's clock rate above its manufacturer-specified default rate, and ...

A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), popularly known as a graphics card/video card, is a processor made up of smaller specialized cores for multitasking. All these cores operate at a specific speed, ...

If you're underclocking the FSB, then yes, it can cause stability issues since several devices in the system (ie. PCI bus) will be running at an out-of-spec speed. Underclocking the multiplier I don't ...

AMD's big Crimson Edition driver launched a few weeks ago with many major changes and feature additions. As is often the case with significant releases such as this, there have been problems. First ...

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The RTX 3090 Ti finally launched at the end of March. Even before it became available, though, there was some concern surrounding its unprecedented power consumption levels, and this particular aspect ...

I've got a 3.0gHz/800mHz FSB Xeon system my boss built for one of the managers at a company we work at. This is supposed to be his -home desktop PC-.<BR><BR>Unfortunately, this thing is loud as heck.

Any teenager with too many post-midnight hours to kill can hone their gaming skills to the point that the most righteous level of difficulty becomes a candyland and the only challenge lies in ...

Apple is trading graphics performance for battery life with its new line of Intel-based MacBook Pro notebooks. The ATI Radeon X1600 graphics card inside each MacBook Pro is capable of running both its ...