Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU benchmarks leaked: Faster than the Apple M1 Max, AMD’s 5980HX and Intel’s 11980HK are downright eaten up

I have something very interesting for my readers today and I am taking over the article from my friend Usman Pirzada more or less in the original, so I have also put him as the actual author. After all, it’s his work and not mine. Surely a simple quote and the usual paraphrasing of a news story wouldn’t have been fair enough there [...]


Intel already practicing IHS manufacturing for Alder Lake – late and early Rocket Lake CPUs compared

A few weeks before the launch of the upcoming Alder Lake CPU generation, Intel seems to be already experimenting with new Integrated Heat Spreader (IHS) manufacturing processes on Rocket Lake CPUs. Noticeable differences between a recently acquired model and a launch sample already give the first visual signs of a new manufacturing process. The [...]


AMD launches the Radeon RX 6600 without XT for the midrange – XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 SPEEDSTER 8GB Review with small hurdles

With the Radeon RX 6600 released today, AMD rounds out the Navi portfolio even further down the line. Since there are once again no reference cards (AMD is following NVIDIA’s lead here with the GeForce RTX 3060), today’s launch article will thus once again use a board partner card. It will be exciting to see if the XFX RX 6600 SWFT 210 [...]


Up to 600 watts of power for graphics cards with the new PCIe 5.0 power connector – Is NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 Ti* the dawn of a new era? | Exclusive

With up to three 8-pin connectors for current high-end graphics cards, the result is a cable-connector tangle that is slowly but surely reaching the limits of what is acceptable and sensible. The old 6+2 Molex connectors in this form are now technically simply obsolete. The 12-pin Microfit connector on NVIDIA’s Founders Edition was [...]