DDR5 Deep Dive – Exclusive interview with Kingston about the new memory standard and many examples from practice

The basic changes to the new DDR5 memory standard have already been discussed around the launch of the Intel Alder Lake CPUs, even if sometimes not completely correct. So today we’re going to revisit the topic and delve deeper into the matter together with Kingston, who were kind enough to provide us with a written interview. It’s no [...]


Intel Alder Lake S – Power consumption myths and no end

I had already discussed the behavior of the new Intel CPUs on different motherboards a few days ago, but the whole thing didn’t leave me alone in the end. The measured differences, especially on the OC boards, were big enough not to book them as measurement tolerance and also reproducible, but then not big enough to explain the partly very [...]


20 reasons to take a deep breath after Intel’s Alder Lake announcement

Yes, the 1700 pins are all still on, so there is nothing mechanical standing in the way of the benchmarks for now. Because euphoric slides are only half the battle, a buy tip, on the other hand, has to be honestly fought for. So let’s take a look and also look forward to something. And to make sure that the time until the test date on 04.11 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]