Long-time member Gargoyle waxes nostalgic about the dusty hardware surrounding him and the deep, senseless need to tweak and push it to its limits.

MadShrimps has a nice little piece on some 8GHz Celeron extreme overclocking action.

Futuremark, the company behind the ubiquitous 3DMark and PCMark benchmark suites, is hosting a worldwide CPU and GPU overclocking competition called “Lords of Overclocking” starting May 18th and running through June 4th.

I spoke with Futuremark’s Kent Wu, and he explained that overclocking awards would be granted by region so that certain overclocking superstars wouldn’t be able to annihilate the competition because they have access to tanks of liquid helium in their garages or something. Furthermore, prizes will be given for weekly results, and competitors can enter multiple times as they tweak their systems to get high results.

A grand prize winner will be invited to attend MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena 2009 event in Beijing, China.

There are a lot of prizes, a lot of chances to win, and I know a lot of people here at Icrontic are capable of making a good showing in this event.

How to overclock the now sub-$100 Radeon HD 4770.

A Phenom II X4 955 overclocked by a group called LimitTeam handily took the fastest AMD processor CPU-Z record with a speed of 7.1GHz, handily beating the previous 6.7GHz score.

The team used an ASUS M4A79T Deluxe deluxe motherboard, seriously underclocking their RAM and ATI HD 4800-series video card to get there, never mind the requisite extreme cooling required.

This isn’t the fastest score ever recorded, but it’s cool nonetheless.

The ASUS Radeon HD 4890 lets users volt mod it for overclocking. Hexus tests how it works.

If you’re wondering how well the new Radeon HD 4890 overclocks, here’s some info.

Gigabyte’s world wide overclocking series held regional qualifiers in Taiwan and The Netherlands. Competition is heating up.

Guru3D overclocks a reference Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285 to see how far the reference design can go.

MadShrimps volt mods and overclocks the crap out of the Galaxy GeForce 9500 GT.

MadShrimps breaks down Phenom II performance scaling so you can tweak the right things to get the most out of your system.

The rumor goes that yields on the Phenom II X4 950 have been better than expected. Rather than rolling with the 950, AMD has reportedly decided to out the X4 955 at 3.2GHz. The rumor also goes that a vCore bump to 1.45v and a dash of air cooling has topped the 4GHz barrier.

This copy of CPU-Z has no idea what is going on.

Discuss.