Sadly I have encountered it one time in my pc building history, a dead Core i7-4770K cpu because i dropped it before delidding. The fall broke a few of the transistors on the back. Instead of throwing it in the trash and quickly forget about my stupid mistake you could Lees verder…
AMD recently briefed the delay of their upcoming 16 core high end CPU part, the Ryzen 9 3950X. AMD originally planned to release the 3950X this September but mentions November as the new release period. We reckon AMD strugles with the 7nm yields of chip manufacturer TSMC, supported by the Lees verder…
Intel briefed us during Computex about their upcoming Cascade Lake X line-up consisting of the Core i9-10900X, 10920X, 10940X and Core i9 10980XE with a maximum of 18 cores. Apparently a new benchmark has surfaced of the Core i9 10900X. We see a Geekbench 4.3.0 score of 5204 Single-Core Score, Lees verder…
Today AMD released a new statement that with the upcoming AGESA 1003ABBA release they implemented improvements to the boost behavior of Ryzen 3000 cpu’s. Lately there has been a lot of discussion around the cpu boosting abilities of AMD Ryzen 3xxx cpu’s. A lot of cpu’s fall out of spec Lees verder…
A few years ago nobody would have thought AMD would return with such a succesfull product as their latest Ryzen cpu’s. With Zen 2 (codename Matisse) which was introduced in July this year, the sales numbers are going through the roof. According to the sales of tech giant mindfactory in Lees verder…
EVGA released something we always questioned why it has never been implemented before. CPU stress testing from your bios! This saves you a lot of hassle and time compared to booting into Windows, starting your bench program and restarting to adjust values because it wasn’t stable. It also avoids the Lees verder…
After the release of AMD’s 2nd gen. Ryzen 5 2600(X) and Ryzen 7 2700(X) the upcoming lineup has ‘accidently’ been disclosed by AMD on it’s website, via the AMD Product Master catalogue which was taken offline right after the leak. The document mentions the model names and product codes of Lees verder…
AMD Ryzen 2000 series uses an improved version of XFR (Extended frequency Range) and Precision Boost 2.0. As most hardware reviewers immediately dive into the overclocking performance of AMD Ryzen 2600X and 2700X they quickly find these new cpu’s tend to overclock themselves higher than following up manual overclocking inputs Lees verder…
The last two weeks AMD dominates the hardware news with the introduction of the new Pinnacle Ridge 2000 series Cpu’s. On top of that AMD’s website states the introduction of two additional cpu’s in the Raven Ridge line up with integrated GPU’s being the Ryzen 3 2200Ge (3.2/3.6 Ghz base-boost) and Lees verder…
The most anticipated question regarding the 2nd generation Ryzen for us and many of you out there, was whether or not you would need an AMD X470 chipset to get most out of your new AMD Ryzen 5 2600(X) or Ryzen 7 2700(X) Cpu? Yesterday, a lot of reviews have Lees verder…