Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
PC Gamer
PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

Upscaling and frame generation are the final nails in the coffin for overclocking, and I'm absolutely okay with that

Someone at Intel Overclocking Labs pouring LN2 on a processor.
Nick Evanson, Hardware writer
(Image credit: Nicholas Evanson)

This month I've been testing: The final batch of ergonomic keyboards for the time being. Shame some of them are so expensive because they'd be spot on for lots of folks. I can't work without mine and I suspect that true for most ergo fans.

If you could go back in time, say twenty years ago, you would have seen me spend most evenings with a feverish and furrowed brow, head buried deep in the innards of a nest of metal and plastic, my palms stained with silver hallmarks, knuckles cut, fingertips burned. I wasn't an engineer working on a specialised project for the space industry–I was simply running yet another overclocking experiment, messing about with voltage mods, homemade heatsinks, and BIOS tweaking, all to squeeze the last iota of gaming performance from my PC.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.