Those interested in computer modification may have heard the term "undervolting" thrown around from time to time, though you may not necessarily know what it means or how to go about doing it.

We’ve talked about overclocking your CPU, now we’re going through how to undervolt your CPU. The performance of your CPU is integral to the running of your PC or laptop, any electronic device really, ...

While overclocking the CPU used to be an unsaid rule in the past, at least for gamers, it's not nearly as popular anymore. Most PC users are fine with running their CPU at the default settings, not ...

Overclocking has, for decades, been something of a rite of passage for computer geeks everywhere. Overclocking your gaming PC can push the CPU and GPU to a new level of performance beyond what the ...

I want to poll that rational minds here at Ars rather than one of the hardware enthusiast forums for fear the only answer I would get there is, "MOOAR GHZ!!1!" I plan to replace my i7-4770S with ...

Backstory is, I got a workstation from my office site to use in my work-at-home situation. It has an i9-9900k, which is occasionally a performance bottleneck. I have been running some simple hardware ...

Everyone's heard of overclocking a CPU to wring the last few drops of performance out it, right? Well, a notebook jockey's equivalent is called "undervolting" and it's designed to increase battery ...

A new attack on Intel’s CPUs, called Plundervolt, may have an unforeseen consequence. The mitigation that fixes it appears to lock the CPU voltage to default settings, possibly preventing users from ...