DDR5 is known to be rarer and harder to come by than some GPUs at the moment. Therefore, the question arose for me: Does an Intel CPU of the 12th generation, codename Alder Lake, really need the new memory standard, or is the performance with DDR4 on a similar level? Alder Lake now also uses two separate memory controllers (IMCs) for DDR4, one for [...]
Today we would like to anticipate one of the upcoming launches in January and test the really interesting Intel Core i5-12400 in gaming (for now). Of course, there will be a follow-up with real application benchmarks soon. Even though I’m not under NDA, I’ll be fair and deliberately use an emulated CPU and none of the available [...]
Right off the bat, a little warning to readers, because the following article is likely to have relevance only to a relatively limited readership. It’s all about the past 11th generation Intel Core CPUs and the Extreme Overclocking motherboards around the Z590 platform. Now Alder Lake is already on the market, but on the one hand older [...]
Badly fitting coolers, too low performance with actually good waterblocks and bent CPUs – meanwhile not only the feedback of the readers is piling up, but also very similar reports from the board partners, cooler manufacturers and system integrators. Based on my own experiences, I went in search of clues and first tried to sort out [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
AVX-512 was a hotly discussed topic around the launch of the new Intel Alder Lake CPUs. At first it was said that the P cores supported it in principle, but in order to be able to offer a common instruction set with the E cores, the feature would be disabled at the silicon level. Later, however, motherboard manufacturers would have found the [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Today it’s about non-existing coolers for unavailable RAM, so once again pure unicorn cinema for all who are only missing the RAM for the new Intel system with DDR5 modules. The fact that the parts want to be well cooled, and even have to be, is beyond question, especially when overclocking. Because what is quite often installed ex works is [...]
Good CPU cooling has always been important, but with Intel’s new, very heat-sensitive Alder Lake CPUs even more so. Especially if you turn the clock dial yourself, a few degrees Celsius more or less can mean several hundred megahertz more or less stable clock speed in return. All the more important is a good cooler with the right contact [...]
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 [...]
Toilet paper is the new hamster gold and some people are already completely off their rocker because of the never-ending story. For all those who are still thinking about what they might buy tomorrow: paper is patient. Sh…. on it.
The race for ever faster CPUs and above all GPUs is now producing such blossoms that even existing standards have to be softened or modified for the new energy waste offensive that soon every end consumer will have to save up for a portable nuclear power plant if they don’t want to be in debt with the energy supplier well into old age. To [...]
What actually happens when you let the two fastest CPUs compete with the GeForce RTX 3090 instead of the Radeon RX 6900XT? We noticed some amazing things and therefore we measured and cross-tested several times. The result is reproducible, but that does not make it any more comprehensible. But it at least explains why the power consumption [...]
The new memory controller with DDR5 support is known to be one of the biggest changes in the 12th generation Intel Core CPUs. But DDR4 is also still supported – assuming an appropriate motherboard – and there have been some changes under the hood here as well. Perfect conditions to let Comet Lake, Rocket Lake and Alder Lake compete [...]
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 [...]
Are you still amazed about the so different power consumption values at the different launch reviews of Intel’s Alder Lake? In the meantime I have the data of a second motherboard model and I could hardly find any deviations to my measurements. The second board is an MSI MAG Z690 Carbon Wifi, which positions itself one price and performance [...]
So today I’ll get serious and show you where Alder Lake S can really score aside from colorful gaming pixels. Gaming what? Completely overrated if you look at at least some of today’s results. Because the true strengths of the new architecture will hardly be seen while playing games, because today it’s getting faster in a [...]
Intel in fast AND economical? Yes, since the 12th. Generation, i.e. Alder Lake S, this also fits together again. And so today’s text effectively becomes the narrative for a kind of turnaround, for which Intel can really only be congratulated if it is objectively tested and everything is properly classified. Since this was connected with some [...]
The RAM manufacturer G.Skill has managed to overclock their new Trident Z5 memory modules to DDR5-7000 with timings 40-40-40-76 on the new Intel Alder Lake platform and also verified this as stable with over 100% coverage in the HCI Memtest. Two 16 GB modules with Samsung memory chips are used together with an unspecified Intel 12th Gen CPU and an [...]
The MEG Z590 Unify-X is the last, but also the cheapest XOC 2-DIMM motherboard that finally made it to us for review. MSI also wants to target professional overclockers and enthusiasts who want to get the maximum performance out of their Rocket Lake CPU at all costs, be it for benchmarking competitions or just daily gaming. Now let’s take a [...]
