[Industry news] HYPERTUNE brings world’s first third-party auto-overlocking tool to PC Gamers

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HYPERTUNE, a COMPREADY company, today announced the public release of its Gaming Performance Engineering platform, built on Intel’sⓇ Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) SDK. By combining Intel’s trusted performance technologies with its proprietary validation methodology, HYPERTUNE helps gamers safely unlock more performance from supported Intel-based PCs through a guided, validation-first optimization experience.

HYPERTUNE is the most comprehensive automated overclocking platform on the market, specifically targeting gaming performance, built on Intel’s XTU SDK.  What once required hours of manual BIOS tuning, processor tuning, and extensive stability testing can now be accomplished in minutes through intelligent software built on Intel’s native performance framework.

The release follows an extended early-access period, including an eight-month open beta with over 60,000 participants, from first-time PC gamers to competitive esports professionals. Drawing on years of real-world hardware optimization, HYPERTUNE helps improve frame rates, reduce latency, and enhance system responsiveness without requiring advanced overclocking expertise.

“It’s long been Intel’s mission to make performance tuning on Intel platforms as accessible as possible, which is why we’ve been so proud to work with COMPREADY on HYPERTUNE these past several months. They truly understand the importance of removing barriers to performance tuning for PC gamers, and with the Intel XTU SDK at the foundation we know Intel gamers are going to love the HYPERTUNE experience – even if they’ve never thought about overclocking before.” said Dan Ragland, Sr Principal Engineer at Intel.

“HYPERTUNE is built directly on Intel’s Extreme Tuning Utility SDK, following close collaboration between us and the team. Performance tuning has been locked behind expertise for too long, making it less accessible for many players. Software like HYPERTUNE brings that capability to every gamer on an Intel platform. That’s exactly the kind of experience we opened the XTU SDK to enable.”

“We’re not trying to build a tool for overclockers,” said Austin Copeland, founder and CEO of HYPERTUNE. “We’re trying to make tuning the standard way every gamer starts their PC, the same way anti-virus, drivers, or GPU control panels became foundational. In a market where a new GPU can cost more than a used car, that’s not a nice-to-have; It’s the difference between playing at your best or being priced out.”

 

From Esports Engineering to Everyday Gaming

The philosophy behind HYPERTUNE was forged long before the software itself. Before founding the company, Austin Copeland led three teams within TSM’s VALORANT program, where maximizing system performance was a competitive necessity. Through optimizing more than 10,000 gaming systems, the team found that that modern hardware  contained untapped performance, but doing so was not accessible for most.  Rather than simply automating overclocking, HYPERTUNE set out to empower everyone with years of practical experience built into software capable of delivering validated, system-specific optimization in minutes.

 

Validation-First Performance Engineering

Because every gaming PC is unique, HYPERTUNE evaluates each supported system individually before applying any optimization.

This validation-first approach replaces generalized tuning profiles with recommendations for each individual system, helping maximize performance while maintaining stability and reliability.

To further refine its engineering methodology, the team collaborated with world-record-setting overclocker Pieter Plaisier, better known as SkatterBencher, one of the world’s leading authorities on Intel performance tuning.

“Over the years, I’ve spent countless hours exploring how to extract the best performance from PC hardware without compromising stability or longevity,” said Plaisier. “Partnering with HYPERTUNE has allowed us to translate that experience into an intelligent platform that helps gamers achieve meaningful performance gains safely and consistently.”

If a system cannot safely support a proposed optimization, HYPERTUNE simply lets the user know that it is unsupported. Every optimization is fully reversible, requires no modification of Windows and operates entirely through Intel’s supported system-level controls. In internal testing across supported hardware configurations and gaming workloads, HYPERTUNE has delivered FPS improvements of up to 60%, with actual results varying by processor generation, real-time CPU, GPU, and memory monitoring, and overall system design*.

Extending the Value of Modern Gaming PCs

As gaming hardware becomes more sophisticated and more expensive, many players are keeping their systems longer. HYPERTUNE helps gamers maximize the value of existing Intel-based PCs by making advanced hardware optimization more approachable, repeatable, and reliable.