Relive overclocking’s history with the legendary Charles ‘Fugger’ Wirth

If you possibly can’t keep in mind when the first discrete graphics playing cards hit the market, overclocking may not look like a giant deal to you. Diminishing returns are a truth of life with trendy {hardware}, however two or three many years in the past, tweaks and overclocks would possibly get you as a lot as a 50 % efficiency increase. Just ask Charles Wirth. These days he’s a member of the workforce at UL Solutions, the writer of the Futuremark suite of benchmarking software program. But when you’re a part of the overclocking group, you realize him merely as the legendary “Fugger.”

Charles took a while to speak with Gordon on the flooring of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, ostensibly to speak about the newest UL benchmarking software program, however actually to shoot the breeze about the glory days of PC overclocking. Check it out in 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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Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer