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> I still miss HardOCP and Kyle Bennett and his team's reviews.

Kyle stil posts on Hardforum, and much of the team went on to https://www.thefpsreview.com/ but it's not really the same, because there's no 50% overclocking by just moving a jumper. CPUs and GPUs get factory overclocking that's probably within 10% of what you can get with reasonable efforts.

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If it comes like that from the factory, is it overclocking? Isn't it just clocking?

potato, overpotato

We live in the age of dynamic clocks where modern performance-oriented CPUs try to optimize both performance and power efficiency at all times, so for the vast majority of users, it's both a lot faster and a lot more efficient to do things this way, while enthusiast parts still allow a lot of manual control to squeeze out the last few percent. I've had really good luck in my past few builds just getting very high-spec RAM and running XMP / DOCP profiles with a small FSB OC and letting the multipliers do the rest.

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