TL;DR: A YouTuber achieved a 20-30% performance boost with NVIDIA's RTX 5090 laptop GPU by shunt modding, increasing the power supplied to the GPU from 175W to 250W. This risky overclocking method ...

Overclocking remains one of the most effective ways to get your hardware to do more for you. There are many ways to extract more power from your GPU, but not all of them yield the same results. Some ...

The practice of "overclocking," specifically in regards to PC components, means to deliberately push a component past its manufacturer-established limits to generate improved performance. In layman's ...

This modification involved bridging the GPU’s current detection resistors (shunt resistors) in the power delivery system. This allowed the graphics card to draw more power than what its firmware ...

The seal has been broken. That is, the mysterious 4GHz seal, as no GPU has ever crossed this threshold. Though it's still not something the average overclocker could pull off at home with mere liquid ...

In a new video, leaker Moore's Law is Dead has posted a purported GB203 die shot which will power the second-fastest Blackwell desktop gaming GPU -- the GeForce RTX 5080 -- and what will be the two ...

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series products were announced at CES 2025, including the various mobile SKUs. While the desktop GPUs have already launched to the public, we're awaiting the laptop variants to ...