Micron claims to have the worlds fastest SSD commercially available. The Micron X100 as it is called features 3D XPoint technology able of reaching speeds up to 9 GB/s and 2.5 million IOPS via the standard NVMe protocol and a 16x PCI-E interface. In comparison the new consumer PCI-E Gen Lees verder…
Today MSI released the new AGESA 1.0.0.4 ABBA for Ryzen 3000 series cpu’s for their AMD X570 motherboards. We think it won’t take long before other manufacturers follow this example. Momentarilly i’m writing this blog from our Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master on Bios 1.0.0.3 ABBA and I just checked there Lees verder…
Last week the first Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 GPU’s landed at the retailers. Only custom cards from AIB’s, no Founders Edition will be released. The Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650 is positioned as a direct replacement for the GTX 1050 Ti untill a possible GTX 1650 Ti comes out. The GTX Lees verder…
Via the Chinese Koolshare we receive an update on the upcoming Intel NUC series with codename Ghost Canyon. Intel takes another approach with this NUC series separating the housing + PSU from a so called Element-card which are supposed to be purchased separately or in a kit. This Element card Lees verder…
It has been 20 years since we bought our first family PC, a Compaq Presario 4814 from 1999. Back then pc’s cost a pretty penny knowing we paid about $4500,00 for a Pentium 233 MMX with 32MB PC100 SDRAM, 4GB (No not TB) HDD and integrated gpu. Not to forget Lees verder…
Via Videocardz we receive a first look at what possibly is going to be the XFX RX 5500 XT Thicc. This card is part of the Navi 14 line up and a direct competitor for Nvidia’s GTX 16xx series. The RX 5500 (XT) is a follow-up to the AMD Radeon Lees verder…
Today Corsair announced the availability of several new models of its signature CORSAIR ONE family of gaming PCs. The latest to join the CORSAIR ONE lineup are the CORSAIR ONE i145, the CORSAIR ONE i164, and the new range-topping CORSAIR ONE PRO i182. Every new CORSAIR ONE system is powered Lees verder…
Introduction This week we wrote a blog about overclocking and cooling of a Ryzen 9 3900X. One aspect we didn’t cover yet is memory and FCLK overclocking on a Ryzen 9 3900X. Overclocking Memory and Infinity Fabric should bring some additional performance. To get some better insight into how overclocking Lees verder…
Recently Nvidia announced that they are working on RTX functionality for Quake II. Nvidia started Lightspeed studio’s that will be responsible for implementing RTX in older games like Doom and Unreal. These older games put less strain on the GPU making an addition of RTX possible without sacrificing to much Lees verder…
AMD’s cpu sales is going through the roof if we may believe the sales figures of German retailer Mindfactory. We have great respect for the way AMD came out of nothing and build such a competitive cpu line up as Ryzen 3000 (Matisse gen.) today. But don’t expect AMD to Lees verder…