Pushing past Nvidia imposed performance limitations on RTX 5090 By PickleRick of Xtreme Systems Credits to Turbogear of Xtreme Systems, this would not have been possible without his expertise and RF engineering background Special thanks to ElmorLabs Brief history Starting in the late 1970s, thru the 80s, and into the early 90s, many of the first overclocks were achieved thru crystal swapping. Systems from this time period often had no provisions for altering clock speeds vi

Author: Max Spicer 11/30/2025 Max Spicer is an industry analyst for XtremeSystems.org, Forsaken PC, Overclocker for team XtremeSystems (Spicer on HWBOT).Contact directly at SpicerXtremeSystems@gmail.com Intro When I first started to get into XOC I was extremely worried about killing boards cold. It’s been just over three years now since I ran Liquid Nitrogen for the first time at Benchmeet in Fremont California hosted at Asus and I’ve only sustained two hardware deaths, a Ma