Intel Extreme Tuning Utility - how to overclock your processor and graphics card

Every user wants his computer to run fast, error-free, and with as few resources as possible. Using hyped tweakers, cleaners, and optimizers usually does not give any significant effect, and this is understandable because computer performance is mostly determined by the technical characteristics of its hardware components - mainly CPU and RAM.

↑ Intel Extreme Tuning Utility - a powerful tool for overclocking your processor and graphics card

To increase the performance of your PC to be really noticeable, you can either replace the main hardware components or overclock them. Usually overclocking is applied to the CPU and graphics processor, if the latter support this feature. This procedure itself is a forced increase in clock frequency and voltage processor, at the expense of which the latter begins to work in overclocked mode, without having a significant impact on the stability of the operating system.

Today, there are several methods of overclocking: by fine-tuning the BIOS settings, flashing BIOS with alternative firmware with different frequency and voltage parameters, as well as by using special programs, one of which is devoted to today's review. It's called Intel Extreme Tuning Utility or briefly XTU. This is a powerful proprietary tool designed to manage Intel processor parameters in a Windows environment and intended for users with a high and medium level of training.