If you’ll be able to’t bear in mind when the primary discrete graphics playing cards hit the market, overclocking won’t appear to be a giant deal to you. Diminishing returns are a reality of life with trendy {hardware}, however two or three many years in the past, tweaks and overclocks may get you as a lot as a 50 % efficiency increase. Just ask Charles Wirth. These days he’s a member of the crew at UL Solutions, the writer of the Futuremark suite of benchmarking software program. But should you’re a part of the overclocking neighborhood, you understand him merely because the legendary “Fugger.”

Charles took a while to speak with Gordon on the ground of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, ostensibly to speak in regards to the newest UL benchmarking software program, however actually to shoot the breeze in regards to the glory days of PC overclocking. Check it out within the newest PCWorld YouTube video.

Is there something left for the layman overclocker in at present’s PC market? Wirth thinks so. “There’s still more technology coming, there’s a lot of stuff with AI technology, and the integration of AI into the new processors. We’re actually trying to get ahead of that, and actually develop for the manufacturers to showcase those new features.”

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