If you want maximum performance: The 7700X is a great all-rounder, but some of Intel's mid-range chips do beat it out in certain benchmarks, and the 7800X3D can't be beaten for gaming performance.

In terms of gaming performance, the processor provides up ... to a three-year-old system running a seventh-generation i7-7700K, the company is promising up to 35 percent faster 4K video editing ...

Just an installer, some quick auto-benchmarks, and then your GPU or CPU (or both) are putting their hashrates to work for you. The software even generates a Bitcoin wallet address for you.

As far as the performance boost afforded by this overclock, I ran a few tests and saw about five percent uplift, which isn't much but also very typical and also expected. Overall I'd say this GPU ...